GeForce 820A vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing GeForce 820A and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire. 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 GeForce 820A and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire. 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.

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 820A Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Power consumption (TDP) 15 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 700% more power consumption, than GeForce 820A.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 1 GB more memory, than GeForce 820A.
  • GeForce 820A is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - in Laptops.
  • GeForce 820A is build with Fermi 2.0 architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce 820A is 75 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • GeForce 820A is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce 820A is 800 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 820A.

Full Specs

  GeForce 820A Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Architecture Fermi 2.0 Terascale 2
Code name GF117 Broadway-XT
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 17 March 2014 7 January 2010
Pipelines 96 1600
Core clock speed 775 MHz 700 MHz
Transistor count 585 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 12.40
Floating-point performance 297.6 gflops
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 14.4 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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