Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and GeForce GTX 480M SLI - video card comparison
Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
GeForce GTX 480M SLI
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Broadway-XT
N11E-GTX-A3
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2010
May 2010
Core clock speed
700 MHz
425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
-
6000 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
704
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
100 Watt
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1200 MHz
Shared memory
-
-
DirectX
11
11