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    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Radeon 520

    Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon 520. 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 Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon 520. 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.
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    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon 520 are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon 520 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 5870 Crossfire or Radeon 520 here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Laptops
    Radeon 520 Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon 520
    Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 50 Watt
    Interface PCIe 3.0 x8
    Supplementary power connectors None
    Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 2 GB
    Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 140% more power consumption, than Radeon 520.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon 520 have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon 520 - with GCN 1.0.
    • Core clock speed of Radeon 520 is 330 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon 520 - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon 520 is 1250 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 16−18 0−1
    ultra / 1080p 9−10 −
    QHD / 1440p 4−5 0−1
    low / 720p 30−35 1−2
    medium / 1080p 18−20 0−1
    The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 3100% more, than Radeon 520.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon 520
    Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 1.0
    Code name Broadway-XT Oland
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 7 January 2010 21 March 2017
    Pipelines 1600 320
    Core clock speed 700 MHz 1030 MHz
    Transistor count 1,040 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 20.60
    Floating-point performance 659.2 gflops
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
    Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 2250 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 16 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 12.0
    Shader Model 5.0
    OpenGL 4.6
    OpenCL 1.2
    Vulkan +
    Laptop size large
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