GeForce 720A vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce 720A and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the GeForce 720A stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is only used in laptop graphics. It has 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 Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire here:

Main Specs

  GeForce 720A Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt 120 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory type DDR3 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2x1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 263% more power consumption, than GeForce 720A.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 1 GB more memory, than GeForce 720A.
  • GeForce 720A is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - in Laptops.
  • GeForce 720A is build with Fermi 2.0 architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce 720A is 75 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • GeForce 720A is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce 720A is 1000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 16−18
ultra / 1080p 9−10
QHD / 1440p 0−1 4−5
low / 720p 1−2 30−35
medium / 1080p 0−1 18−20
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 3100% more, than GeForce 720A.

Full Specs

  GeForce 720A Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Architecture Fermi 2.0 Terascale 2
Code name GF117 Broadway-XT
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 1 July 2014 7 January 2010
Pipelines 96 1600
Core clock speed 775 MHz 700 MHz
Boost Clock 938 MHz
Transistor count 585 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 15.01
Floating-point performance 360.2 gflops
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 16 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_0) DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
Shader Model 5.1
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan N/A
CUDA 2.1
Laptop size large
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