FirePro V5900 vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing FirePro V5900 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between FirePro V5900 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is only used in laptop graphics. It has lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Mobility Radeon HD 5870 here:

Main Specs

  FirePro V5900 Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 50 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI No outputs
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  • FirePro V5900 has 50% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • FirePro V5900 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 uses MXM-B (3.0) interface.
  • FirePro V5900 has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • FirePro V5900 is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - in Laptops.
  • FirePro V5900 is build with TeraScale 3 architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is 100 MHz higher, than FirePro V5900.
  • FirePro V5900 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of FirePro V5900 is 1000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 4−5 10−11
ultra / 1080p 2−3 6−7
QHD / 1440p 1−2 0−1
low / 720p 14−16 21−24
medium / 1080p 7−8 12−14
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 85% more, than FirePro V5900.

Full Specs

  FirePro V5900 Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Architecture TeraScale 3 Terascale 2
Code name Cayman Broadway-XT
Type Workstation Laptop
Release date 24 May 2011 7 January 2010
Pipelines 512 800
Core clock speed 600 MHz 700 MHz
Transistor count 2,640 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 19.20 28.00
Floating-point performance 614.4 gflops 1,120.0 gflops
Length 230 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 64 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 5.0
OpenGL 4.4 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 66 Mh/s
Laptop size large
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