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    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon R9 M385

    Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon R9 M385. 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 and Radeon R9 M385. 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 and Radeon R9 M385 are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon R9 M385 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 or Radeon R9 M385 here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Laptops
    Radeon R9 M385 Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Radeon R9 M385
    Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt
    Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
    Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Radeon R9 M385 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
    • Radeon R9 M385 has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon R9 M385 - with GCN.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R9 M385 - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon R9 M385 is 500 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 10−11 10−12
    ultra / 1080p 6−7 6−7
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 1−2
    low / 720p 21−24 24−27
    medium / 1080p 12−14 12−14
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon R9 M385 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 7% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Radeon R9 M385
    Architecture Terascale 2 GCN
    Code name Broadway-XT Strato
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 7 January 2010 16 June 2015
    Pipelines 800 896
    Core clock speed 700 MHz
    Boost Clock 1100 MHz
    Transistor count 1,040 million 2,080 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 28.00 56.00
    Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops 1,792 gflops
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 1500 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 76.8 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 11.2 (11_0)
    Shader Model 5.0 6.3
    OpenGL 4.4 4.4
    OpenCL 1.2 Not Listed
    Vulkan N/A
    FreeSync +
    Bus support PCIe 3.0
    Laptop size large medium sized
    Eyefinity +
    HD3D +
    PowerTune +
    DualGraphics +
    TrueAudio +
    ZeroCore +
    Switchable graphics +
    Mantle +
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