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    GeForce GTX 950M vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870

    Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing GeForce GTX 950M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between GeForce GTX 950M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.
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    GeForce GTX 950M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: GeForce GTX 950M 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 950M or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 here:

    GeForce GTX 950M Laptops
    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Laptops

    Main Specs

      GeForce GTX 950M Mobility Radeon HD 5870
    Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 50 Watt
    Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 MXM-B (3.0)
    Memory type DDR3 or GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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    • GeForce GTX 950M has 50% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
    • GeForce GTX 950M is connected by PCIe 3.0 x8, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 uses MXM-B (3.0) interface.
    • GeForce GTX 950M has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • GeForce GTX 950M is build with Maxwell architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - with Terascale 2.
    • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 950M is 214 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
    • GeForce GTX 950M is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - by 40 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 950M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is 1000 MHz.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 12−14 10−11
    ultra / 1080p 8−9 6−7
    QHD / 1440p 2−3 0−1
    low / 720p 27−30 21−24
    medium / 1080p 16−18 12−14
    The average gaming FPS of GeForce GTX 950M in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 23% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

    Full Specs

      GeForce GTX 950M Mobility Radeon HD 5870
    Architecture Maxwell Terascale 2
    Code name N16P-GT Broadway-XT
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 12 March 2015 7 January 2010
    Pipelines 640 800
    Core clock speed 914 MHz 700 MHz
    Boost Clock 1124 MHz
    Transistor count 1,870 million 1,040 million
    Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
    Texture fill rate 44.96 28.00
    Floating-point performance 1,439 gflops 1,120.0 gflops
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 1000 or 2500 MHz 1000 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 32 or 80 GB/s 64 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
    Shader Model 5.1 5.0
    OpenGL 4.5 4.4
    OpenCL 1.2 1.2
    Vulkan 1.1.126 N/A
    CUDA +
    CUDA cores 640
    Bus support PCI Express 3.0
    SLI options +
    HDMI +
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 140 Mh/s
    Laptop size medium sized large
    DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support +
    H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder +
    Optimus +
    Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 2.5 Mh/s
    GameStream +
    GeForce ShadowPlay +
    GPU Boost 2.0
    GameWorks +
    BatteryBoost +
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