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    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon HD 8970M

    Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 8970M. 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 8970M. 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.
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    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 8970M are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 8970M 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 8970M here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Laptops
    Radeon HD 8970M Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Radeon HD 8970M
    Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 100 Watt
    Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
    Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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    • Radeon HD 8970M has 100% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Radeon HD 8970M uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
    • Radeon HD 8970M has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon HD 8970M - with GCN.
    • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 8970M is 150 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 8970M - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 8970M is 3800 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 10−11 20−22
    ultra / 1080p 6−7 12−14
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 6−7
    4K / 2160p − 5−6
    low / 720p 21−24 35−40
    medium / 1080p 12−14 24−27
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 8970M in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 84% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Radeon HD 8970M
    Architecture Terascale 2 GCN
    Code name Broadway-XT Neptune
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 7 January 2010 15 May 2013
    Pipelines 800 1280
    Core clock speed 700 MHz 850 MHz
    Boost Clock 900 MHz
    Transistor count 1,040 million 2,800 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 28.00 72.00
    Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops 2,304 gflops
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
    Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 4800 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 153.6 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_1)
    Shader Model 5.0 5.1
    OpenGL 4.4 4.6
    OpenCL 1.2 1.2
    Vulkan N/A 1.2.131
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 273 Mh/s
    Laptop size large large
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