ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 videocard review

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 videocard released by ATI; release date: 7 January 2010. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on TeraScale 2 microarchitecture codenamed Broadway.

Core clock speed - 700 MHz. Texture fill rate - 28 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 800. Floating-point performance - 1,120.0 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 40 nm. Transistors count - 1,040 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 50 Watt.

Memory type: DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 4000 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 64.0 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38579
1085
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop
Face Detection
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
939.363 mPixels/s
8.170 mPixels/s
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop
Ocean Surface Simulation
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
14101.507 Frames/s
585.971 Frames/s
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
95.851 Frames/s
0.860 Frames/s
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop
Video Composition
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
530.303 Frames/s
20.108 Frames/s
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop
Bitcoin Mining
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
4429.590 mHash/s
98.606 mHash/s
GFXBench 4.0
Car Chase Offscreen
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
34770 Frames
2070 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
Manhattan
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
27823 Frames
1679 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225 Frames
3077 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
Car Chase Offscreen
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
34770.000 Fps
2070.000 Fps
GFXBench 4.0
Manhattan
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
27823.000 Fps
1679.000 Fps
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225.000 Fps
3077.000 Fps
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 1085
PassMark - G2D Mark 219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection 8.170 mPixels/s
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation 585.971 Frames/s
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex 0.860 Frames/s
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition 20.108 Frames/s
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining 98.606 mHash/s
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen 2070 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan 1679 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 3077 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen 2070.000 Fps
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan 1679.000 Fps
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 3077.000 Fps

Games performance

StarCraft 2 (2010)

Low, 1024x768166.00
Medium, 1360x76863.00
High, 1360x76856.00
Ultra, 1920x108041.10

Metro 2033 (2010)

Low, 800x60085.30
Medium, 1360x76853.50
High, 1600x90030.50
Ultra, 1920x108010.90

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x768129.00
Medium, 1024x76872.60
High, 1024x76856.10
Ultra, 1920x108017.10

Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005)

High, 1024x768200.90

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2
Code name Broadway
Launch date 7 January 2010
Place in performance rating 1216
Type Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 700 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm
Pipelines 800
Texture fill rate 28 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt
Transistor count 1,040 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

HDMI 1.3a