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    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Radeon R9 M380

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon R9 M380, 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 R9 M380, check out specs charts below.
    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Check Price
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    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon R9 M380 are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon R9 M380 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 R9 M380 here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Laptops
    Radeon R9 M380 Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon R9 M380
    Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt
    Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
    Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 4 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs
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    • Radeon R9 M380 has 2 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon R9 M380 - with GCN.
    • Core clock speed of Radeon R9 M380 is 300 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R9 M380 - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon R9 M380 is 500 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 16−18 16−18
    ultra / 1080p 9−10 9−10
    QHD / 1440p 4−5 4−5
    4K / 2160p − 4−5
    low / 720p 30−35 30−35
    medium / 1080p 18−20 20−22
    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon R9 M380 have the same average FPS in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Radeon R9 M380
    Architecture Terascale 2 GCN
    Code name Broadway-XT Strato Pro GDDR5
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 7 January 2010 16 June 2015
    Pipelines 1600 768
    Core clock speed 700 MHz 1000 MHz
    Boost Clock 1000 MHz
    Transistor count 2,080 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 48.00
    Floating-point performance 1,536 gflops
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 1500 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 96 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
    Shader Model 6.3
    OpenGL 4.4
    OpenCL Not Listed
    FreeSync +
    Bus support PCIe 3.0
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 194 Mh/s
    Laptop size large medium sized
    Eyefinity +
    HD3D +
    PowerTune +
    DualGraphics +
    TrueAudio +
    ZeroCore +
    Switchable graphics +
    Mantle +
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