Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Radeon Pro WX 3200

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon Pro WX 3200, 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 Crossfire stacks up against Radeon Pro WX 3200, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon Pro WX 3200 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon Pro WX 3200 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 Pro WX 3200 here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon Pro WX 3200
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 65 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 4 GB
Display Connectors 4x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 84% more power consumption, than Radeon Pro WX 3200.
  • Radeon Pro WX 3200 has 2 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Radeon Pro WX 3200 - in Mobile workstations.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon Pro WX 3200 - with Polaris.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon Pro WX 3200 is 382 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon Pro WX 3200 - by 14 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon Pro WX 3200 is 5000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 12−14
ultra / 1080p 9−10 7−8
QHD / 1440p 4−5 2−3
low / 720p 30−35 27−30
medium / 1080p 18−20 16−18
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 23% more, than Radeon Pro WX 3200.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon Pro WX 3200
Architecture Terascale 2 Polaris
Code name Broadway-XT Polaris 12
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 26 September 2019
Pipelines 1600 640
Core clock speed 700 MHz 1082 MHz
Transistor count 2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 14 nm
Texture fill rate 41.44
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 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 medium sized
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