ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5870 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5870

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
• Around 47% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 580 MHz
• 7.3x more texture fill rate: 68.0 GTexel / s vs 9.28 GTexel / s
• 5x more pipelines: 1600 vs 320
• 7.3x better floating-point performance: 2,720.0 gflops vs 371.2 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
• 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
• 3.2x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1500 MHz
• 6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2199 vs 366
• Around 68% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 416 vs 248

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

• 5.4x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 188 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5870
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2199 366
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	416 248

Compare specifications (specs)