AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire 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 RX 5700 XT

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 6 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 1605 MHz vs 700 MHz
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x1 GB

Launch date	7 July 2019 vs 7 January 2010
Core clock speed	1605 MHz vs 700 MHz
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2x1 GB

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 225 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Name	AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
PassMark - G3D Mark	16357
PassMark - G2D Mark	921
Geekbench - OpenCL	77476
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	252.601
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3949.565
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	24.769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	254.777
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1322.129
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	14699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3369
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	14699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3369
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2134

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA	Terascale 2
Code name	Navi 10	Broadway-XT
Launch date	7 July 2019	7 January 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$400
Place in performance rating	162	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1905 MHz
Compute units	40
Core clock speed	1605 MHz	700 MHz
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	19.51 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	9.75 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate	121.9 GP/s
Render output units	64
Stream Processors	2560
Texture fill rate	304.8 GT/s
Texture Units	160
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	120 Watt
Transistor count	10.3 B
Manufacturing process technology		40 nm
Pipelines		1600
Video outputs and ports
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 8-pin and 1x6 pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12	11
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x1 GB
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Memory clock speed		1000 MHz
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
TrueAudio
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
HDMI 1.3a