Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon HD 7690M XT

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 7690M XT, 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 stacks up against Radeon HD 7690M XT, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 7690M XT are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 7690M XT 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 or Radeon HD 7690M XT here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Radeon HD 7690M XT
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 25 Watt
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 has 100% more power consumption, than Radeon HD 7690M XT.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Radeon HD 7690M XT uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • Radeon HD 7690M XT has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 7690M XT are build with Terascale 2 architecture.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 7690M XT is 25 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 7690M XT are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 7690M XT is 2600 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 10−11 2−3
ultra / 1080p 6−7 1−2
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 21−24 12−14
medium / 1080p 12−14 4−5
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 160% more, than Radeon HD 7690M XT.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Radeon HD 7690M XT
Architecture Terascale 2 Terascale 2
Code name Broadway-XT Thames XTX
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 7 January 2010 7 June 2011
Pipelines 800 480
Core clock speed 700 MHz 725 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 716 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 28.00 17.40
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops 696.0 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 57.6 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 5.0
OpenGL 4.4 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
Laptop size large medium sized
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