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    GeForce GTX 480 vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 480 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 GTX 480 stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, check out specs charts below.
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    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is a Laptop Graphics Card

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire 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 Crossfire here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Laptops

    Main Specs

      GeForce GTX 480 Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
    Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 120 Watt
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
    Supplementary power connectors 6-pin & 8-pin
    Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 2x1 GB
    Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
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    • GeForce GTX 480 has 108% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
    • GeForce GTX 480 has 1534 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
    • GeForce GTX 480 is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - in Laptops.
    • GeForce GTX 480 is build with Fermi architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
    • Both graphics cards have the same core clock speed.
    • GeForce GTX 480 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 480 is 848 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 21−24 16−18
    ultra / 1080p 12−14 9−10
    QHD / 1440p 6−7 4−5
    4K / 2160p 5−6 −
    low / 720p 40−45 30−35
    medium / 1080p 24−27 18−20
    The average gaming FPS of GeForce GTX 480 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 37% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

    Full Specs

      GeForce GTX 480 Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
    Architecture Fermi Terascale 2
    Code name GF100 Broadway-XT
    Type Desktop Laptop
    Release date 7 December 2010 7 January 2010
    Pipelines 480 1600
    Core clock speed 700 MHz 700 MHz
    Transistor count 3,100 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
    Texture fill rate 42 billion/sec
    Floating-point performance 1,345.0 gflops
    Length 10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
    Memory bus width 384 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 1848 MHz (3696 data rate) 1000 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 177.4 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 12 (11_0) DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
    Shader Model 5.1
    OpenGL 4.2
    OpenCL 1.1
    Vulkan N/A
    CUDA +
    CUDA cores 480
    Bus support 16x PCI-E 2.0
    Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
    SLI options +
    Multi monitor support +
    HDMI +
    HDCP +
    Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
    Audio input for HDMI Internal
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 117 Mh/s
    Laptop size large
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