ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition 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.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

4x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 120 Watt
4x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 120 Watt
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Around 11% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 628 MHz
2x more pipelines: 1600 vs 800
2x more maximum memory size: 2x1 GB vs 1 GB

Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 628 MHz
Pipelines	1600 vs 800
Maximum memory size	2x1 GB vs 1 GB

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Terascale 2
Code name	Broadway	Broadway-XT
Launch date	7 January 2010	7 January 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	628 MHz	700 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,004.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	800	1600
Texture fill rate	25.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	120 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)	11
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2x1 GB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
HDMI 1.3a