Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Radeon HD 6930

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon HD 6930. 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 6930. 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 6930
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 186 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 6930 has 55% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 1 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6930.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Radeon HD 6930 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon HD 6930 - with TeraScale 3.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 6930 is 50 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon HD 6930 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 6930 is 3800 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 9−10
ultra / 1080p 9−10 5−6
QHD / 1440p 4−5 0−1
low / 720p 30−35 21−24
medium / 1080p 18−20 10−12
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 58% more, than Radeon HD 6930.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon HD 6930
Architecture Terascale 2 TeraScale 3
Code name Broadway-XT Cayman
Type Laptop Desktop
Release date 7 January 2010 1 December 2011
Pipelines 1600 1280
Core clock speed 700 MHz 750 MHz
Transistor count 2,640 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 60.00
Floating-point performance 1,920.0 gflops
Length 220 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth 153.6 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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