Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Radeon HD 5670

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon HD 5670. 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 HD 5670. 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.

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

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon HD 5670
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 64 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 87% more power consumption, than Radeon HD 5670.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 1 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 5670.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Radeon HD 5670 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon HD 5670 are build with Terascale 2 architecture.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 5670 is 75 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon HD 5670 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon HD 5670 is 1000 MHz.

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 HD 5670.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon HD 5670
Architecture Terascale 2 Terascale 2
Code name Broadway-XT Redwood
Type Laptop Desktop
Release date 7 January 2010 14 January 2010
Pipelines 1600 400
Core clock speed 700 MHz 775 MHz
Transistor count 627 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 15.50
Floating-point performance 620.0 gflops
Length 168 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0
OpenGL 4.4
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan N/A
Laptop size large
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