ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5750 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5750 and ATI Radeon HD 3870 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5750

ATI Radeon HD 3870

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5750

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 25% higher pipelines: 400 vs 320
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
4.2x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 106 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Around 42% higher memory clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 2252 MHz

Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 19 November 2007
Pipelines	400 vs 320
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 106 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz vs 2252 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3870

Around 41% higher core clock speed: 777 MHz vs 550 MHz
Around 13% higher texture fill rate: 12.43 GTexel / s vs 11 GTexel / s
Around 13% better floating-point performance: 497.3 gflops vs 440.0 gflops

Core clock speed	777 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	12.43 GTexel / s vs 11 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	497.3 gflops vs 440.0 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5750
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3870

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5750	ATI Radeon HD 3870
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1937
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1937
PassMark - G3D Mark		555
PassMark - G2D Mark		58
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3131
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3131

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5750	ATI Radeon HD 3870
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale
Code name	Madison	RV670
Launch date	7 January 2010	19 November 2007
Place in performance rating	1389	1392
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$269
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	777 MHz
Floating-point performance	440.0 gflops	497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	400	320
Texture fill rate	11 GTexel / s	12.43 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	106 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	666 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		241 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s	72.1 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz	2252 MHz
Memory type	DDR, GDDR3, GDDR5	GDDR4
Shared memory	0