GeForce 920MX vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing GeForce 920MX and Mobility Radeon HD 5870. 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 GeForce 920MX and Mobility Radeon HD 5870. 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.

GeForce 920MX and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce 920MX and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 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 GeForce 920MX or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 here:

Main Specs

  GeForce 920MX Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Power consumption (TDP) 16 Watt 50 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type DDR3, GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 has 212% more power consumption, than GeForce 920MX.
  • GeForce 920MX is connected by PCIe 3.0 x8, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 uses MXM-B (3.0) interface.
  • GeForce 920MX has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce 920MX is build with Maxwell architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce 920MX is 265 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • GeForce 920MX is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce 920MX is 800 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 2−3 10−11
ultra / 1080p 0−1 6−7
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 12−14 21−24
medium / 1080p 3−4 12−14
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 150% more, than GeForce 920MX.

Full Specs

  GeForce 920MX Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Architecture Maxwell Terascale 2
Code name N16V-GMR Broadway-XT
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 25 March 2015 7 January 2010
Pipelines 256 800
Core clock speed 965 MHz 700 MHz
Boost Clock 993 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 23.83 28.00
Floating-point performance 602.1 gflops 1,120.0 gflops
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB/s 64 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126 N/A
CUDA +
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size large
Optimus +
GPU Boost 2.0
GameWorks +
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