Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge. 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 R5 Bristol Ridge. 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 and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge 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 R5 Bristol Ridge here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 12-45 Watt
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 900% more power consumption, than Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge - with GCN 1.2/2.0.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge - by 28 nm process technology.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 3−4
ultra / 1080p 9−10 1−2
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 R5 Bristol Ridge.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge
Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 1.2/2.0
Code name Broadway-XT Bristol Ridge
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 7 January 2010 1 June 2016
Pipelines 1600 384
Core clock speed 700 MHz
Boost Clock 800 MHz
Transistor count 3100 Million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz
Shared memory - +
DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 DirectX 12 (FL 12_0)
Laptop size large medium sized
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