ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X2500
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and 256MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X2500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
800 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2010
Release Date
Jun 2007
Manhattan
Generation
M6x
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
64.00GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
800
Shading Units
-
40
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.840 GPixel/s
28.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.840 GTexel/s
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-
-
1120 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
Unknown
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
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-
-
Graphics Processor
Broadway
GPU Name
M66
Broadway XT
(216-0769008)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Ultra-Threaded SE
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
90 nm
1.04 billion
Transistors
0.157 billion
166 mm²
Die Size
150 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.4
OpenGL
2.1
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
-
5.0
Shader Model
3.0
