GeForce GT 640M LE vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GT 640M LE 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 GT 640M LE stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, check out specs charts below.

GeForce GT 640M LE and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce GT 640M LE 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 GT 640M LE or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire here:

Main Specs

  GeForce GT 640M LE Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 120 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory type DDR3\DDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2x1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 500% more power consumption, than GeForce GT 640M LE.
  • GeForce GT 640M LE and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce GT 640M LE is build with Fermi / Kepler architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
  • GeForce GT 640M LE is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce GT 640M LE 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 1−2 30−35
medium / 1080p 0−1 18−20
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 3100% more, than GeForce GT 640M LE.

Full Specs

  GeForce GT 640M LE Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Architecture Fermi / Kepler Terascale 2
Code name N13P-LP Broadway-XT
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 22 March 2012 7 January 2010
Pipelines 384 1600
Core clock speed 700 MHz
Transistor count 585 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Floating-point performance 384.0 gflops
Memory bus width 128bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 - 4000 MHz 1000 MHz
Shared memory - -
DirectX 12 API DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
Shader Model 5.1
OpenGL 4.5
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan N/A
CUDA +
CUDA cores Up to 384
Bus support PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
HDMI +
HDCP +
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536
3D Blu-Ray +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 14 Mh/s
Laptop size medium sized large
Optimus +
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