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    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon Sky 500

    Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon Sky 500. 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 Sky 500. 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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    Radeon Sky 500

    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:

    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Radeon Sky 500
    Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 150 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 4 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs 1x DisplayPort
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    • Radeon Sky 500 has 200% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Radeon Sky 500 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
    • Radeon Sky 500 has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is used in Laptops, and Radeon Sky 500 - in Desktops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon Sky 500 - with GCN 1.0.
    • Core clock speed of Radeon Sky 500 is 250 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon Sky 500 - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon Sky 500 is 3800 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 10−11 35−40
    ultra / 1080p 6−7 21−24
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 16−18
    4K / 2160p − 10−11
    low / 720p 21−24 60−65
    medium / 1080p 12−14 40−45
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon Sky 500 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 215% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Radeon Sky 500
    Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 1.0
    Code name Broadway-XT Pitcairn
    Type Laptop Desktop
    Release date 7 January 2010 27 March 2013
    Pipelines 800 1280
    Core clock speed 700 MHz 950 MHz
    Transistor count 1,040 million 2,800 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 28.00 76.00
    Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops 2,432 gflops
    Length 242 mm
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
    Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 4800 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 154 GB/s
    Shared memory -
    DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_1)
    Shader Model 5.0 5.1
    OpenGL 4.4 4.6
    OpenCL 1.2 1.2
    Vulkan N/A 1.2.131
    Bus support PCIe 3.0
    Laptop size large
    Form factor full height / full length
    DisplayPort count 1
    Dual-link DVI support +
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