AMD Radeon HD 7950
VS
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
AMD Radeon HD 7950
VS
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 7950 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

264
Place in performance rating
329
13.94
Value for money (0-100)
21.00
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Terascale 2
Tahiti
Code name
Broadway-XT
Desktop
Type
Laptop
31 January 2012 (9 years ago)
Release date
7 January 2010 (11 years ago)
$449
Launch price (MSRP)
no data
$591 (1.3x MSRP)
Price now
$56
reference
Design
no data
3.46
Value for money
1.60
Tahiti
GPU code name
Broadway-XT
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 7950 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1792
Pipelines
1600
no data
Core clock speed
700 MHz
1250 MHz
Boost Clock
no data
4,313 million
Transistor count
no data
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
200 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
89.60
Texture fill rate
no data
2,867 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
28
Compute units
no data
1792
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
1250 MHz
Boost clock speed
no data
4,313 million
Number of transistors
no data
300 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
120 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 7950 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
no data
267 mm
Length
no data
2x 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
no data
no data
Laptop size
large
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 7950 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
3 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2x1 GB
384 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
1250 MHz
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
240 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
no data
no data
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 7950 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, the size and number of monitors.

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Display Connectors
no data
1
Eyefinity
no data
6
Number of Eyefinity displays
no data
+
HDMI
no data
-
DisplayPort support
no data

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon HD 7950 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is the additional functionality.

+
AppAcceleration
no data
1
CrossFire
no data
1
FreeSync
no data
-
HD3D
no data
+
PowerTune
no data
-
TrueAudio
no data
+
ZeroCore
no data
-
Enduro
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 7950 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX® 11
DirectX
DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
4.6
OpenGL
no data
5.1
Shader Model
no data
1.2
OpenCL
no data
-
Mantle
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 7950 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 7950 or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7950
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7950
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7950
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7950
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7950
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 7950

7.84% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (1792 vs 1600)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (3 GB vs 2x1 GB)

Advantages of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Cheaper ($56 vs $591 (1.3x MSRP))

Less power consumption (120 Watt vs 200 Watt)

So, AMD Radeon HD 7950 or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 7950 .

AMD Radeon HD 7950 versus ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

5.0 Out of 1 CpusData Score AMD Radeon HD 7950
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire