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    Mobility Radeon HD 5830 vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5830 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 Mobility Radeon HD 5830 stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, check out specs charts below.
    Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Check Price
    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Check Price

    Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5830 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 Mobility Radeon HD 5830 or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Laptops
    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
    Power consumption (TDP) 24 Watt 120 Watt
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
    Memory type DDR3, GDDR3 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2x1 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs
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    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 400% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire are build with Terascale 2 architecture.
    • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is 200 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is 200 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 4−5 16−18
    ultra / 1080p 2−3 9−10
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 4−5
    low / 720p 16−18 30−35
    medium / 1080p 6−7 18−20
    The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 171% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
    Architecture Terascale 2 Terascale 2
    Code name Broadway Broadway-XT
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 7 January 2010 7 January 2010
    Pipelines 800 1600
    Core clock speed 500 MHz 700 MHz
    Transistor count 1,040 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
    Texture fill rate 20.00
    Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 800 MHz 1000 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 11.2 (11_0) DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
    Shader Model 5.0
    OpenGL 4.4
    OpenCL 1.2
    Vulkan N/A
    Laptop size large large
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