ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
VS
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
VS
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

452
Place in performance rating
669
12.41
Value for money (0-100)
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Terascale 2
Architecture
RV6xx
Broadway
Code name
M88
Laptop
Type
Laptop
7 January 2010 (11 years ago)
Release date
1 March 2008 (13 years ago)
$108
Price now
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3.45
Value for money
no data
Broadway-XT
GPU code name
M88-XT
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

800
Pipelines
320
700 MHz
Core clock speed
660 MHz
1,040 million
Transistor count
666 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
50 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
55 Watt
28.00
Texture fill rate
10.56
1,120.0 gflops
Floating-point performance
422.4 gflops
800
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
1,040 million
Number of transistors
666 million
50 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
55 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870.

MXM-B (3.0)
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
large
Laptop size
large

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 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 can be seen in this section.

DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR3
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
1000 MHz
Memory clock speed
850 MHz
64 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
54.4 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 is the additional functionality.

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PowerPlay 7.0
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 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 or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
Death Stranding (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
F1 2020 (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
Gears Tactics (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
Doom Eternal (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
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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

5.57% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (800 vs 320)

Finer manufacturing process technology (40 nm vs 55 nm)

Less power consumption (50 Watt vs 55 Watt)

More memory bandwidth (64 GB/s vs 54.4 GB/s)

Advantages of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

More maximum RAM amount (512 MB vs 1 GB)

So, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870?

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

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 versus ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 performance benchmarks comparison

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