GeForce GTX 1070 mobile vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing GeForce GTX 1070 mobile 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 GTX 1070 mobile 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.

GeForce GTX 1070 mobile and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce GTX 1070 mobile and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 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 GeForce GTX 1070 mobile or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire here:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 1070 mobile Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 120 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2x1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • Both graphics cards have the same power consumption of 120 Watt.
  • GeForce GTX 1070 mobile has 6 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTX 1070 mobile is build with Pascal architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 1070 mobile is 806 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • GeForce GTX 1070 mobile is manufactured by 16 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is 992 MHz higher, than GeForce GTX 1070 mobile.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 50−55 16−18
ultra / 1080p 35−40 9−10
QHD / 1440p 27−30 4−5
4K / 2160p 16−18
low / 720p 80−85 30−35
medium / 1080p 60−65 18−20
The average gaming FPS of GeForce GTX 1070 mobile in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 225% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 1070 mobile Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Architecture Pascal Terascale 2
Code name N17E-G2 Broadway-XT
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 1 September 2016 7 January 2010
Pipelines 2048 1600
Core clock speed 1506 MHz 700 MHz
Boost Clock 1645 MHz
Transistor count 7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 210.6
Floating-point performance 6,738 gflops
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 8 GB/s 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s
Shared memory - -
G-SYNC support +
VR Ready +
DirectX 12 (12_1) DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
Shader Model 6.4
OpenGL 4.5
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan 1.2.131
CUDA +
CUDA cores 1920
Bus support PCIe 3.0
SLI options +
Multi monitor support +
Laptop size large large
GPU Boost 3.0
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