GeForce GTX 460M SLI vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 460M 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 460M SLI stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870, check out specs charts below.

GeForce GTX 460M SLI and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce GTX 460M 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 460M SLI or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 here:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 460M SLI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt
Interface MXM-B (3.0)
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x1536 MB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • GeForce GTX 460M SLI has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTX 460M SLI is build with Fermi architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is 25 MHz higher, than GeForce GTX 460M SLI.
  • GeForce GTX 460M SLI and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 460M SLI is 250 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 12−14 10−11
ultra / 1080p 7−8 6−7
QHD / 1440p 2−3 0−1
low / 720p 27−30 21−24
medium / 1080p 16−18 12−14
The average gaming FPS of GeForce GTX 460M SLI in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 23% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 460M SLI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Architecture Fermi Terascale 2
Code name N11E-GS Broadway-XT
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 3 September 2010 7 January 2010
Pipelines 384 800
Core clock speed 675 MHz 700 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 28.00
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 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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