GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 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 650 Ti Boost stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, check out specs charts below.

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:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Power consumption (TDP) 134 Watt 120 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors One 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2x1 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost has 11% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost is build with Kepler architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost is 280 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is 994 MHz higher, than GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 16−18
ultra / 1080p 9−10 9−10
QHD / 1440p 3−4 4−5
low / 720p 30−35 30−35
medium / 1080p 21−24 18−20
The average gaming FPS of GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 6% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Architecture Kepler Terascale 2
Code name GK106 Broadway-XT
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 26 March 2013 7 January 2010
Pipelines 768 1600
Core clock speed 980 MHz 700 MHz
Boost Clock 1033 MHz
Transistor count 2,540 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 62.7 billion/sec
Floating-point performance 1,585 gflops
Length 9.5" (24.1 cm)
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6.0 GB/s 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 144.2 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_0) DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
Shader Model 5.1
OpenGL 4.3
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126
CUDA +
CUDA cores 768
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
SLI options +
Multi monitor support 4 Displays
HDMI +
HDCP +
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI Internal
3D Blu-Ray +
3D Gaming +
3D Vision +
3D Vision Live +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 54 Mh/s
Laptop size large
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