ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
VS
AMD Radeon R9 380
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
VS
AMD Radeon R9 380

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and AMD Radeon R9 380. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

329
Place in performance rating
218
21.00
Value for money (0-100)
15.96
Terascale 2
Architecture
GCN
Broadway-XT
Code name
Antigua
Laptop
Type
Desktop
7 January 2010 (11 years ago)
Release date
26 June 2015 (6 years ago)
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Launch price (MSRP)
$199
$56
Price now
$167 (0.8x MSRP)
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Design
reference
1.60
Value for money
32.51
Broadway-XT
GPU code name
Tonga Pro
Laptop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and AMD Radeon R9 380 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1600
Pipelines
1792
700 MHz
Core clock speed
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Boost Clock
970 MHz
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Transistor count
5,000 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
120 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
190 Watt
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Texture fill rate
108.6
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Floating-point performance
3,476 gflops
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Compute units
28
1600
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
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Boost clock speed
970 MHz
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Number of transistors
5,000 million
120 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
190 Watt

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 R9 380.

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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Length
221 mm
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Supplementary power connectors
2 x 6-pin
large
Laptop size
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Bus support
PCIe 3.0
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Bridgeless CrossFire
1
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Form factor
full height / full length / dual slot

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 R9 380 can be seen in this section.

DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
2x1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
1000 MHz
Memory clock speed
970 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
182.4 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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High bandwidth memory (HBM)
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and AMD Radeon R9 380, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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Eyefinity
+
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Number of Eyefinity displays
6
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HDMI
+
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DisplayPort support
+

Technologies

The difference between ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and AMD Radeon R9 380 is the additional functionality.

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AppAcceleration
-
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CrossFire
1
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FRTC
1
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FreeSync
1
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HD3D
+
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LiquidVR
1
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PowerTune
+
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TrueAudio
+
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ZeroCore
+
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VCE
+
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DDMA audio
+
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Enduro
-

API support

The difference in supported APIs is ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and AMD Radeon R9 380. 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
4.5
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Vulkan
+
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Shader Model
6.3
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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 R9 380 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 R9 380 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 R9 380
Death Stranding (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
AMD Radeon R9 380
F1 2020 (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
AMD Radeon R9 380
Gears Tactics (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
AMD Radeon R9 380
Doom Eternal (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
AMD Radeon R9 380
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

Cheaper ($56 vs $167 (0.8x MSRP))

Less power consumption (120 Watt vs 190 Watt)

Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 380

14.08% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (1792 vs 1600)

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 R9 380?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon R9 380 .

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire versus AMD Radeon R9 380 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon R9 380