ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
VS
AMD Radeon R7 M260X
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
VS
AMD Radeon R7 M260X

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and AMD Radeon R7 M260X. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

329
Place in performance rating
666
21.00
Value for money (0-100)
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Terascale 2
Architecture
GCN
Broadway-XT
Code name
Opal
Laptop
Type
Laptop
7 January 2010 (11 years ago)
Release date
7 January 2014 (7 years ago)
$56
Price now
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1.60
Value for money
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Broadway-XT
GPU code name
Mars
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and AMD Radeon R7 M260X based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1600
Pipelines
384
700 MHz
Core clock speed
715 MHz
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Boost Clock
715 MHz
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Transistor count
950 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
120 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
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Texture fill rate
17.16
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Floating-point performance
549.1 gflops
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Compute units
6
1600
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
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Boost clock speed
715 MHz
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Number of transistors
950 million
120 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
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Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and AMD Radeon R7 M260X.

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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
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Supplementary power connectors
None
large
Laptop size
medium sized
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Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x8

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 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and AMD Radeon R7 M260X can be seen in this section.

DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
2x1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
1000 MHz
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and AMD Radeon R7 M260X, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
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Technologies

The difference between ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and AMD Radeon R7 M260X is the additional functionality.

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AppAcceleration
-
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FreeSync
1
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HD3D
+
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PowerTune
+
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TrueAudio
-
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ZeroCore
+
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Enduro
-
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DualGraphics
1
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Switchable graphics
1
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Zero Core
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and AMD Radeon R7 M260X. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
DirectX
DirectX® 12
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OpenGL
4.3
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Shader Model
5.1
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OpenCL
2.0
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Mantle
+

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and AMD Radeon R7 M260X 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 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire or AMD Radeon R7 M260X good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
AMD Radeon R7 M260X
Death Stranding (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
AMD Radeon R7 M260X
F1 2020 (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
AMD Radeon R7 M260X
Gears Tactics (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
AMD Radeon R7 M260X
Doom Eternal (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
AMD Radeon R7 M260X
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 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

9.03% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (1600 vs 384)

Advantages of AMD Radeon R7 M260X

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 2x1 GB)

So, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire or AMD Radeon R7 M260X?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire .

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire versus AMD Radeon R7 M260X performance benchmarks comparison

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