GeForce 825M vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce 825M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the GeForce 825M stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, check out specs charts below.

GeForce 825M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce 825M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire are only used in laptop graphics. They have 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 GeForce 825M or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire here:

Main Specs

  GeForce 825M Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt 120 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type DDR3 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2x1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 263% more power consumption, than GeForce 825M.
  • GeForce 825M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce 825M is build with Kepler architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce 825M is 150 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • GeForce 825M is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce 825M is 800 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 16−18
ultra / 1080p 9−10
QHD / 1440p 0−1 4−5
low / 720p 2−3 30−35
medium / 1080p 0−1 18−20
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 1500% more, than GeForce 825M.

Full Specs

  GeForce 825M Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Architecture Kepler Terascale 2
Code name GK208 Broadway-XT
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 27 January 2014 7 January 2010
Pipelines 384 1600
Core clock speed 850 MHz 700 MHz
Boost Clock 941 MHz
Transistor count 915 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 30.11
Floating-point performance 722.7 gflops
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 12 (11_0) DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
Shader Model 5.1
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126
CUDA +
Laptop size medium sized large
Optimus +
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