FirePro M7740 vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing FirePro M7740 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between FirePro M7740 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.

FirePro M7740 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: FirePro M7740 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 are only used in laptop graphics. They have lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with FirePro M7740 or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 here:

Main Specs

  FirePro M7740 Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 50 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • FirePro M7740 has 20% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • FirePro M7740 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 uses MXM-B (3.0) interface.
  • FirePro M7740 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
  • FirePro M7740 is used in Mobile workstations, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - in Laptops.
  • FirePro M7740 is build with Terascale 1 architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is 50 MHz higher, than FirePro M7740.
  • FirePro M7740 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of FirePro M7740 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is 1000 MHz.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 6−7 10−11
ultra / 1080p 4−5 6−7
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 16−18 21−24
medium / 1080p 8−9 12−14
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 44% more, than FirePro M7740.

Full Specs

  FirePro M7740 Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Architecture Terascale 1 Terascale 2
Code name RV740 Broadway-XT
Type Mobile workstation Laptop
Release date 4 August 2009 7 January 2010
Pipelines 640 800
Core clock speed 650 MHz 700 MHz
Transistor count 826 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 20.80 28.00
Floating-point performance 832.0 gflops 1,120.0 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 54.14 GB/s 64 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 10.1 (10_1) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 4.1 5.0
OpenGL 3.3 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
Laptop size large large
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