Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon R7 A265

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon R7 A265. 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 R7 A265. 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 R7 A265
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x8
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 DDR3
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Radeon R7 A265 uses PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.
  • Radeon R7 A265 has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is used in Laptops, and Radeon R7 A265 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon R7 A265 - with GCN 1.0.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon R7 A265 is 25 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R7 A265 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon R7 A265 is 800 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 12−14
medium / 1080p 12−14 3−4
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 150% more, than Radeon R7 A265.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Radeon R7 A265
Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 1.0
Code name Broadway-XT Opal
Type Laptop Desktop
Release date 7 January 2010 9 January 2014
Pipelines 800 384
Core clock speed 700 MHz 725 MHz
Boost Clock 825 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 950 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 28.00 19.80
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops 633.6 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 28.8 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
Laptop size large
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