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    GeForce GTX 480M vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

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

    Note: GeForce GTX 480M 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 GTX 480M or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire here:

    GeForce GTX 480M Laptops
    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Laptops

    Main Specs

      GeForce GTX 480M Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
    Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 120 Watt
    Interface MXM-B (3.0)
    Supplementary power connectors None
    Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2x1 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs
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    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 20% more power consumption, than GeForce GTX 480M.
    • GeForce GTX 480M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • GeForce GTX 480M is build with Fermi architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
    • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 480M is 150 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
    • GeForce GTX 480M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 480M is 200 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 10−11 16−18
    ultra / 1080p 6−7 9−10
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 4−5
    low / 720p 21−24 30−35
    medium / 1080p 12−14 18−20
    The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 46% more, than GeForce GTX 480M.

    Full Specs

      GeForce GTX 480M Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
    Architecture Fermi Terascale 2
    Code name N11E-GTX-A3 Broadway-XT
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 25 May 2010 7 January 2010
    Pipelines 352 1600
    Core clock speed 850 MHz 700 MHz
    Transistor count 3,100 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
    Texture fill rate 18.7 billion/sec
    Floating-point performance 598.4 gflops
    Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 1200 MHz 1000 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 76.8 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 12 API DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
    Shader Model 5.1
    OpenGL 4.5
    OpenCL 1.1
    Vulkan N/A
    CUDA +
    Bus support PCI-E 2.0
    SLI options +
    Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
    Laptop size large large
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