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    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon HD 7950

    Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 7950. 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 7950. 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 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:

    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Radeon HD 7950
    Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 200 Watt
    Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
    Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
    Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 3 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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    • Radeon HD 7950 has 300% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Radeon HD 7950 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
    • Radeon HD 7950 has 2 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is used in Laptops, and Radeon HD 7950 - in Desktops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon HD 7950 - with GCN 1.0.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 7950 - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 7950 is 250 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 10−11 35−40
    ultra / 1080p 6−7 21−24
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 16−18
    4K / 2160p − 10−11
    low / 720p 21−24 60−65
    medium / 1080p 12−14 40−45
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 7950 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 215% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Radeon HD 7950
    Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 1.0
    Code name Broadway-XT Tahiti
    Type Laptop Desktop
    Release date 7 January 2010 31 January 2012
    Pipelines 800 1792
    Core clock speed 700 MHz
    Boost Clock 1250 MHz
    Transistor count 1,040 million 4,313 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 28.00 89.60
    Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops 2,867 gflops
    Length 267 mm
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 384 Bit
    Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 1250 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 240 GB/s
    Shared memory -
    DirectX 11.2 (11_0)
    Shader Model 5.0 5.1
    OpenGL 4.4 4.6
    OpenCL 1.2 1.2
    Vulkan N/A
    Monero / XMR (CryptoNight) 0.56 kh/s
    FreeSync +
    Bus support PCIe 3.0 x16
    HDMI +
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 381 Mh/s
    Laptop size large
    Eyefinity +
    PowerTune +
    ZeroCore +
    Design reference
    Number of Eyefinity displays 6
    CrossFire +
    Decred / DCR (Decred) 0.78 Gh/s
    Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 13.86 Mh/s
    Zcash / ZEC (Equihash) 250 Sol/s
    Compute units 28
    AppAcceleration +
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