Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Radeon Pro 5600M

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon Pro 5600M, 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 Pro 5600M, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon Pro 5600M are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon Pro 5600M 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 Pro 5600M here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon Pro 5600M
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 50 Watt
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 HBM2
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 8 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 140% more power consumption, than Radeon Pro 5600M.
  • Radeon Pro 5600M has 6 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Radeon Pro 5600M - in Mobile workstations.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon Pro 5600M - with Navi / RDNA.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon Pro 5600M - by 7 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon Pro 5600M is 540 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 50−55
ultra / 1080p 9−10 30−35
QHD / 1440p 4−5 27−30
4K / 2160p 14−16
low / 720p 30−35 75−80
medium / 1080p 18−20 60−65
The average gaming FPS of Radeon Pro 5600M in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 212% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon Pro 5600M
Architecture Terascale 2 Navi / RDNA
Code name Broadway-XT Navi 10
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 15 June 2020
Pipelines 1600 2560
Core clock speed 700 MHz
Boost Clock 1265 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 7 nm
Texture fill rate 164.8
Memory bus width 128 Bit 2048 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 1540 MBps
Memory bandwidth 394.2 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 12 (12_1)
Shader Model 6.5
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 2.0
Vulkan 1.2
Laptop size large medium sized
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