GeForce GTX 675M vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 675M 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 675M stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, check out specs charts below.

GeForce GTX 675M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce GTX 675M 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 675M or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire here:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 675M Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 120 Watt
Interface MXM-B (3.0)
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 675M.
  • GeForce GTX 675M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTX 675M is build with Fermi architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is 80 MHz higher, than GeForce GTX 675M.
  • GeForce GTX 675M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 675M is 500 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 675M.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 675M Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Architecture Fermi Terascale 2
Code name N13E-GS1 Broadway-XT
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 22 March 2012 7 January 2010
Pipelines 384 1600
Core clock speed 620 MHz 700 MHz
Transistor count 1,950 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 39.7 billion/sec
Floating-point performance 952.3 gflops
Memory bus width 256bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 96.0 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 +
CUDA cores 384
Bus support PCI Express 2.0
SLI options +
HDMI +
HDCP +
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 59 Mh/s
Laptop size large large
Optimus +
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