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    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Radeon HD 8730M

    Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon HD 8730M. 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 HD 8730M. 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 Crossfire and Radeon HD 8730M are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon HD 8730M are only used in laptop graphics. They have 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 or Radeon HD 8730M here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Laptops
    Radeon HD 8730M Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon HD 8730M
    Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt
    Interface PCIe 3.0 x8
    Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 DDR3
    Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 2 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs
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    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon HD 8730M have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon HD 8730M - with GCN.
    • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is 50 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 8730M.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 8730M - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 8730M is 1000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 16−18 0−1
    ultra / 1080p 9−10 −
    QHD / 1440p 4−5 0−1
    low / 720p 30−35 1−2
    medium / 1080p 18−20 0−1
    The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 3100% more, than Radeon HD 8730M.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon HD 8730M
    Architecture Terascale 2 GCN
    Code name Broadway-XT Mars
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 7 January 2010 16 November 2012
    Pipelines 1600 384
    Core clock speed 700 MHz 650 MHz
    Boost Clock 700 MHz
    Transistor count 950 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 16.80
    Floating-point performance 537.6 gflops
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 2000 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 32 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 12 (11_1)
    Shader Model 5.1
    OpenGL 4.6
    OpenCL 1.2
    Vulkan 1.2.131
    Laptop size large medium sized
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