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    Mobility Radeon HD 5830 vs Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 7970M 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 Mobility Radeon HD 5830 stacks up against Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire, check out specs charts below.
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    Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire 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 Mobility Radeon HD 5830 or Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Laptops
    Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire
    Power consumption (TDP) 24 Watt 200 Watt
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
    Memory type DDR3, GDDR3 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs
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    • Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire has 733% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire - with GCN.
    • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire is 350 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire is 4000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 4−5 35−40
    ultra / 1080p 2−3 21−24
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 16−18
    4K / 2160p − 10−11
    low / 720p 16−18 60−65
    medium / 1080p 6−7 40−45
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 485% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire
    Architecture Terascale 2 GCN
    Code name Broadway Wimbledon XT
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 7 January 2010 1 May 2012
    Pipelines 800 2560
    Core clock speed 500 MHz 850 MHz
    Transistor count 1,040 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 20.00
    Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 2x 256 Bit
    Memory clock speed 800 MHz 4800 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 11.2 (11_0) DirectX 11.1, Shader 5.0
    Shader Model 5.0
    OpenGL 4.4
    OpenCL 1.2
    Vulkan N/A
    Laptop size large large
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