GeForce GTX 650 vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870

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

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 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 here:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 650 Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Power consumption (TDP) 64 Watt 50 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors One 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI No outputs
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  • GeForce GTX 650 has 28% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • GeForce GTX 650 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 uses MXM-B (3.0) interface.
  • GeForce GTX 650 has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • GeForce GTX 650 is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTX 650 is build with Kepler architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 650 is 358 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • GeForce GTX 650 is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is 995 MHz higher, than GeForce GTX 650.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 8−9 10−11
ultra / 1080p 5−6 6−7
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 18−20 21−24
medium / 1080p 10−11 12−14
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 30% more, than GeForce GTX 650.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 650 Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Architecture Kepler Terascale 2
Code name GK107 Broadway-XT
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 6 September 2012 7 January 2010
Pipelines 384 800
Core clock speed 1058 MHz 700 MHz
Transistor count 1,270 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 33.9 billion/sec 28.00
Floating-point performance 812.5 gflops 1,120.0 gflops
Length 5.70" (14.5 cm)
Memory bus width 128-bit GDDR5 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5.0 GB/s 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 80.0 GB/s 64 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.3 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126 N/A
CUDA +
CUDA cores 384
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.38" (11.1 cm)
Multi monitor support 4 displays
HDMI +
HDCP +
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI Internal
3D Blu-Ray +
3D Gaming +
3D Vision +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 26 Mh/s
Laptop size large
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