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    GeForce GTX 260M SLI vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 260M SLI and Mobility Radeon HD 5870, 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 GTX 260M SLI stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870, check out specs charts below.
    GeForce GTX 260M SLI Check Price
    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Check Price

    GeForce GTX 260M SLI and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: GeForce GTX 260M SLI and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 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 GTX 260M SLI or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 here:

    GeForce GTX 260M SLI Laptops
    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Laptops

    Main Specs

      GeForce GTX 260M SLI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
    Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 50 Watt
    Interface MXM-B (3.0)
    Memory type GDDR3 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs
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    • GeForce GTX 260M SLI has 200% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
    • GeForce GTX 260M SLI has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • GeForce GTX 260M SLI is build with G9x architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - with Terascale 2.
    • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is 150 MHz higher, than GeForce GTX 260M SLI.
    • GeForce GTX 260M SLI is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - by 40 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is 50 MHz higher, than GeForce GTX 260M SLI.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 8−9 10−11
    ultra / 1080p 5−6 6−7
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
    low / 720p 20−22 21−24
    medium / 1080p 10−12 12−14
    The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 18% more, than GeForce GTX 260M SLI.

    Full Specs

      GeForce GTX 260M SLI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
    Architecture G9x Terascale 2
    Code name NB9E-GTX Broadway-XT
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 2 March 2009 7 January 2010
    Pipelines 224 800
    Core clock speed 550 MHz 700 MHz
    Transistor count 1508 Million 1,040 million
    Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 40 nm
    Texture fill rate 28.00
    Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops
    Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 950 MHz 1000 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX DirectX 10, Shader 4.0 11.2 (11_0)
    Shader Model 5.0
    OpenGL 4.4
    OpenCL 1.2
    Vulkan N/A
    CUDA +
    Laptop size large large
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