GeForce GTX 670M vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 670M 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 670M stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870, check out specs charts below.

GeForce GTX 670M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce GTX 670M 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 670M or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 here:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 670M Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 50 Watt
Interface MXM-B (3.0) MXM-B (3.0)
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • GeForce GTX 670M has 50% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Both video cards are using MXM-B (3.0) interface connection to a motherboard.
  • GeForce GTX 670M has 2 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTX 670M is build with Fermi architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is 102 MHz higher, than GeForce GTX 670M.
  • GeForce GTX 670M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 670M is 500 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

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 670M.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 670M Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Architecture Fermi Terascale 2
Code name N13E-GS1-LP Broadway-XT
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 22 March 2012 7 January 2010
Pipelines 336 800
Core clock speed 598 MHz 700 MHz
Transistor count 1,950 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 33.5 billion/sec 28.00
Floating-point performance 803.7 gflops 1,120.0 gflops
Memory bus width 192bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 72.0 GB/s 64 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 12 API 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA +
CUDA cores 336
Bus support PCI Express 2.0
SLI options +
HDMI +
HDCP +
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 53 Mh/s
Laptop size large large
Optimus +
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