GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile vs Radeon HD 5870

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 3 Nov 2016
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5870

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

113 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5870 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti MobileRadeon HD 5870
GPU NameGP107 ()vsCypress (Cypress XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders768vs1600
Compute Units6vs20
Core clock1490 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs48vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti MobileRadeon HD 5870
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti MobileRadeon HD 5870
TDP75 wattsvs188 watts
Release Date3 Nov 2016vs23 Sep 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
    47.70 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
    71.50 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    68.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
    112.10 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
    2288.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5870
    2720.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better