ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 vs ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking639not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.79no data
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)RV6xx (2008−2010)
GPU code nameBroadway-XTno data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)1 August 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1600no data
Core clock speed700 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)120 Wattno data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount2x1 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1000 MHzno data
Shared memory-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 1 August 2010

ATI Mobility HD 3400 has an age advantage of 6 months.

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
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