Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Radeon 540

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon 540. 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 Crossfire and Radeon 540. 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 Crossfire is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire 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 Crossfire here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon 540
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 50 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 140% more power consumption, than Radeon 540.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon 540 have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Radeon 540 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon 540 - with GCN 4.0.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon 540 is 400 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon 540 - by 14 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon 540 is 6000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 6−7
ultra / 1080p 9−10 3−4
QHD / 1440p 4−5 0−1
low / 720p 30−35 14−16
medium / 1080p 18−20 7−8
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 137% more, than Radeon 540.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon 540
Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 4.0
Code name Broadway-XT Lexa
Type Laptop Desktop
Release date 7 January 2010 26 March 2019
Pipelines 1600 512
Core clock speed 700 MHz 1100 MHz
Boost Clock 1124 MHz
Transistor count 2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 14 nm
Texture fill rate 35.97
Length 145 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 56 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 12 (12_0)
Shader Model 6.4
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 2.0
Vulkan 1.2.131
Laptop size large
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