Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon RX 570X

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon RX 570X, 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 stacks up against Radeon RX 570X, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 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 here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Radeon RX 570X
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 120 Watt
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon RX 570X has 140% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Radeon RX 570X uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • Radeon RX 570X has 7 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is used in Laptops, and Radeon RX 570X - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon RX 570X - with GCN 4.0.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon RX 570X is 468 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon RX 570X - by 14 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon RX 570X is 6000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 10−11 9−10
ultra / 1080p 6−7 5−6
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 21−24 21−24
medium / 1080p 12−14 10−12
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 8% more, than Radeon RX 570X.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Radeon RX 570X
Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 4.0
Code name Broadway-XT Polaris 20
Type Laptop Desktop
Release date 7 January 2010 11 April 2018
Pipelines 800 2048
Core clock speed 700 MHz 1168 MHz
Boost Clock 1244 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 14 nm
Texture fill rate 28.00 159.2
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops 5,095 gflops
Length 241 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 224.0 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (12_0)
Shader Model 5.0 6.4
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan N/A 1.2.131
Laptop size large
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