Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Radeon Pro WX 5100

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon Pro WX 5100, 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 5100, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire 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 Crossfire here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon Pro WX 5100
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 75 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 8 GB
Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 60% more power consumption, than Radeon Pro WX 5100.
  • Radeon Pro WX 5100 has 6 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Radeon Pro WX 5100 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon Pro WX 5100 - with GCN 4.0.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon Pro WX 5100 is 13 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon Pro WX 5100 - by 14 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon Pro WX 5100 is 4000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 35−40
ultra / 1080p 9−10 21−24
QHD / 1440p 4−5 16−18
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 30−35 60−65
medium / 1080p 18−20 40−45
The average gaming FPS of Radeon Pro WX 5100 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 125% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon Pro WX 5100
Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 4.0
Code name Broadway-XT Ellesmere
Type Laptop Workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 18 November 2016
Pipelines 1600 1792
Core clock speed 700 MHz 713 MHz
Boost Clock 1086 MHz
Transistor count 5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 14 nm
Texture fill rate 121.6
Floating-point performance 3,892 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 160.0 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
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 250 Mh/s
Laptop size large
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