GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 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 GTX 1050 Ti 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 GTX 1050 Ti Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 120 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2x1 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 60% more power consumption, than GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has 2 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is build with Pascal architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is 591 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is manufactured by 16 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is 6008 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 35−40 16−18
ultra / 1080p 21−24 9−10
QHD / 1440p 16−18 4−5
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 60−65 30−35
medium / 1080p 40−45 18−20
The average gaming FPS of GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 125% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Architecture Pascal Terascale 2
Code name N17P-G1 Broadway-XT
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 25 October 2016 7 January 2010
Pipelines 768 1600
Core clock speed 1291 MHz 700 MHz
Boost Clock 1392 MHz
Transistor count 3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 66.82
Floating-point performance 2,138 gflops
Length 145 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7008 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
Shared memory - -
G-SYNC support +
VR Ready +
DirectX 12 (12_1) DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
Shader Model 6.4
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan 1.2.131
CUDA +
Monero / XMR (CryptoNight) 0.3 kh/s
CUDA cores 768
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 326 Mh/s
Laptop size large
Decred / DCR (Decred) 1.01 Gh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 12.62 Mh/s
Zcash / ZEC (Equihash) 156.48 Sol/s
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