Radeon Vega 3 Embedded vs ATI Mobility HD 5870

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 efficiency4.08no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameBroadwayPicasso-M
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2010 (15 years ago)2019 (6 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 cores800192
Core clock speed700 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1200 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rate28.0014.40
Floating-point processing power1.12 TFLOPS0.4608 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs4012

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
Widthno dataIGP
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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth64 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 outputsMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 10 Watt

Vega 3 Embedded has a 233.3% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon Vega 3 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is a notebook card while Radeon Vega 3 Embedded is a desktop one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
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