Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon HD 4770

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 4770. 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 and Radeon HD 4770. 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 is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 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 here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Radeon HD 4770
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 80 Watt
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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  • Radeon HD 4770 has 60% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Radeon HD 4770 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • Radeon HD 4770 has 511 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is used in Laptops, and Radeon HD 4770 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon HD 4770 - with TeraScale.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 4770 is 50 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 4770 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 4770 is 2200 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 10−11 1−2
ultra / 1080p 6−7 0−1
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 21−24 10−12
medium / 1080p 12−14 2−3
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 200% more, than Radeon HD 4770.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Radeon HD 4770
Architecture Terascale 2 TeraScale
Code name Broadway-XT RV740
Type Laptop Desktop
Release date 7 January 2010 28 April 2009
Pipelines 800 640
Core clock speed 700 MHz 750 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 826 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 28.00 24.00
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops 960.0 gflops
Length 203 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 51.2 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model 5.0 4.1
OpenGL 4.4 3.3
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan N/A N/A
Laptop size large
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