Radeon E9260 MXM vs ATI Mobility HD 5870

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking782not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.06no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameBroadwayBaffin
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)27 September 2016 (8 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 cores800896
Core clock speed700 MHz1090 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1200 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate28.0057.60
Floating-point processing power1.12 TFLOPS2.15 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs4048

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)MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s112.0 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)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 27 September 2016
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm

E9260 MXM has an age advantage of 6 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon E9260 MXM. We've got no test results to judge.


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