Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Radeon HD 5750

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon HD 5750, 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 5870 Crossfire stacks up against Radeon HD 5750, check out specs charts below.

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 5750
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 86 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 39% more power consumption, than Radeon HD 5750.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 1 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 5750.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Radeon HD 5750 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon HD 5750 - with TeraScale 2.
  • Both graphics cards have the same core clock speed.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon HD 5750 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 5750 is 3600 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 3−4
ultra / 1080p 9−10 2−3
QHD / 1440p 4−5 0−1
low / 720p 30−35 14−16
medium / 1080p 18−20 5−6
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 216% more, than Radeon HD 5750.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon HD 5750
Architecture Terascale 2 TeraScale 2
Code name Broadway-XT Juniper
Type Laptop Desktop
Release date 7 January 2010 13 October 2009
Pipelines 1600 720
Core clock speed 700 MHz 700 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 25.20
Floating-point performance 1,008.0 gflops
Length 178 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 4600 MHz
Memory bandwidth 73.6 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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