ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT 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, 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).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 17% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 600 MHz
11.7x more texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
20x more pipelines: 800 vs 40
23.3x better floating-point performance: 1,120.0 gflops vs 48 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
5x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 800 MHz
10.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1092 vs 102
3.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3077 vs 780
3.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3077 vs 780

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 14 May 2007
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	800 vs 40
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops vs 48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1092 vs 102
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3077 vs 780
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3077 vs 780

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT

Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 246 vs 223

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	246 vs 223

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1092

102

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

223

246

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3077

780

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3077

780

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	1092	102
PassMark - G2D Mark	223	246
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	8.17
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	585.971
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.86
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	20.108
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	98.606
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3077	780
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3077	780

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale
Code name	Broadway	M74
Launch date	7 January 2010	14 May 2007
Place in performance rating	1190	1193
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops	48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	800	40
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	180 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5	DDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
HDMI 1.3a
PowerPlay 7.0