Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon HD 7730

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 7730, 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 7730, check out specs charts below.

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 HD 7730
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 47 Watt
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 has 6% more power consumption, than Radeon HD 7730.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Radeon HD 7730 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 7730 have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is used in Laptops, and Radeon HD 7730 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon HD 7730 - with GCN 1.0.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 7730 is 100 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 7730 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 7730 is 3500 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 10−11 3−4
ultra / 1080p 6−7 1−2
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 21−24 14−16
medium / 1080p 12−14 5−6
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 116% more, than Radeon HD 7730.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Radeon HD 7730
Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 1.0
Code name Broadway-XT Cape Verde
Type Laptop Desktop
Release date 7 January 2010 1 May 2013
Pipelines 800 384
Core clock speed 700 MHz 800 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 28.00 19.20
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops 614.4 gflops
Length 168 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 72 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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