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    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Radeon R7 250

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon R7 250, 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 R7 250, check out specs charts below.
    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Check Price
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    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:

    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon R7 250
    Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 75 Watt
    Interface PCIe 3.0 x8
    Supplementary power connectors N/A
    Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 2 GB
    Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 60% more power consumption, than Radeon R7 250.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon R7 250 have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Radeon R7 250 - in Desktops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon R7 250 - with GCN.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R7 250 - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon R7 250 is 150 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

    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 R7 250.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon R7 250
    Architecture Terascale 2 GCN
    Code name Broadway-XT Oland XT
    Type Laptop Desktop
    Release date 7 January 2010 1 October 2013
    Pipelines 1600 384
    Core clock speed 700 MHz
    Boost Clock 1050 MHz
    Transistor count 950 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 25.20
    Floating-point performance 716.8 gflops
    Length 168 mm
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 1150 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 72 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
    Shader Model 5.1
    OpenGL 4.6
    OpenCL 1.2
    FreeSync +
    Bus support PCIe 3.0
    HDMI +
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 117 Mh/s
    Laptop size large
    Design reference
    CrossFire +
    DDMA audio +
    Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 3 Mh/s
    AppAcceleration +
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