Mobility Radeon HD 5830 vs Radeon HD 5870

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 5870. 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 5830 and Radeon HD 5870. 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 5830 is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5830 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 5830 here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Radeon HD 5870
Power consumption (TDP) 24 Watt 188 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 5870 has 683% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 5870 have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 is used in Laptops, and Radeon HD 5870 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon HD 5870 - with TeraScale 2.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 5870 is 350 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 5870 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 5870 is 4000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 4−5 10−12
ultra / 1080p 2−3 6−7
QHD / 1440p 0−1 1−2
low / 720p 16−18 24−27
medium / 1080p 6−7 14−16
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 100% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Radeon HD 5870
Architecture Terascale 2 TeraScale 2
Code name Broadway Cypress
Type Laptop Desktop
Release date 7 January 2010 23 September 2009
Pipelines 800 1600
Core clock speed 500 MHz 850 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 20.00 68.00
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 2,720.0 gflops
Length 282 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB/s 153.6 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
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