NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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), Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 8 month(s) later
3.2x more core clock speed: 2235 MHz vs 700 MHz
10.2x more pipelines: 16384 vs 1600
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 40 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 2x1 GB
Around 31% higher memory clock speed: 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective vs 1000 MHz

Launch date	20 Sep 2022 vs 7 January 2010
Core clock speed	2235 MHz vs 700 MHz
Pipelines	16384 vs 1600
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 2x1 GB
Memory clock speed	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

3.8x lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 450 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 450 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
PassMark - G2D Mark	1297
PassMark - G3D Mark	38287
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	9223
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	582.642
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	98.472
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	178.756
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2968.159
Geekbench - OpenCL	317791
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Terascale 2
Code name	AD102	Broadway-XT
Launch date	20 Sep 2022	7 January 2010
Place in performance rating	13	not rated
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2520 MHz
Core clock speed	2235 MHz	700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1,290 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	82.58 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	82.58 TFLOPS
Pipelines	16384	1600
Pixel fill rate	443.5 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	1,290 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	450 Watt	120 Watt
Transistor count	76300 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Triple-slot
Height	61 mm, 2.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	304 mm, 12 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin
Width	137 mm, 5.4 inches
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	11
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	2x1 GB
Memory bandwidth	1,008 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6X	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
HDMI 1.3a