Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Radeon R9 370

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon R9 370. 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 R9 370. 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.

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 R9 370
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 110 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 9% more power consumption, than Radeon R9 370.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon R9 370 have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Radeon R9 370 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon R9 370 - with GCN 1.0.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon R9 370 is 225 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R9 370 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon R9 370 is 4600 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 R9 370 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 125% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon R9 370
Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 1.0
Code name Broadway-XT Trinidad
Type Laptop Desktop
Release date 7 January 2010 5 May 2015
Pipelines 1600 1280
Core clock speed 700 MHz 925 MHz
Boost Clock 975 MHz
Transistor count 2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 78.00
Floating-point performance 2,496 gflops
Length 221 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 5600 MHz
Memory bandwidth 179.2 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
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 336 Mh/s
Laptop size large
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