Radeon HD 7870 and Mobility Radeon HD 5650 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7870
Mobility Radeon HD 5650
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
Madison Pro
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2012
January 2010
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
-
650 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
450 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
400
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
15-19 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
9.000
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A