AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
4.2x more texture fill rate: 80 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 1280 vs 320
6.7x better floating-point performance: 2,560 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
16.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4604 vs 284
Around 62% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 586 vs 362

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 March 2012 vs 7 January 2010
Texture fill rate	80 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 320
Floating-point performance	2,560 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4604 vs 284
PassMark - G2D Mark	586 vs 362

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165

6.4x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 225 Watt
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4604

284

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

586

362

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165
PassMark - G3D Mark	4604	284
PassMark - G2D Mark	586	362
Geekbench - OpenCL	77430
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	55.446
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	952.668
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	64.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	294.215
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1651

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	TeraScale
Code name	Pitcairn	M96
Design	AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch date	5 March 2012	7 January 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$349
Place in performance rating	463	465
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,560 gflops	384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	1280	320
Stream Processors	1024
Texture fill rate	80 GTexel / s	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	514 million
Core clock speed		600 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	11	10.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	(G)DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync