ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 vs ATI Mobility HD 5870

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking774not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.23no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameBroadwayM54
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)19 January 2006 (18 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 cores8006
Core clock speed700 MHz445 MHz
Boost clock speedno data445 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million107 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate28.001.780
Floating-point processing power1.12 TFLOPSno data
ROPs164
TMUs404

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
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 1.0 x16

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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz250 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s8 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model5.03.0
OpenGL4.42.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 19 January 2006
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 90 nm

ATI Mobility HD 5870 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

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