Radeon R2E Mobile Graphics 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 efficiency4.09no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameBroadwayBeema
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (15 years ago)28 January 2015 (9 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 cores800128
Core clock speed700 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data600 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate28.002.400
Floating-point processing power1.12 TFLOPS0.0768 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs408

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)IGP

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth64 GB/sno data
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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.5 (6.0)
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.1
VulkanN/A1.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 28 January 2015
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt

R2E Mobile Graphics has an age advantage of 5 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

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