GeForce GTX 960A vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 960A 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 960A 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 960A 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 2 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • GeForce GTX 960A 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 960A has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • GeForce GTX 960A is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTX 960A is build with Maxwell architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 960A is 329 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • GeForce GTX 960A is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 960A is 4012 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 12−14 10−11
ultra / 1080p 7−8 6−7
QHD / 1440p 2−3 0−1
low / 720p 24−27 21−24
medium / 1080p 14−16 12−14
The average gaming FPS of GeForce GTX 960A in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 15% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 960A Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Architecture Maxwell Terascale 2
Code name GM107 Broadway-XT
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 13 March 2015 7 January 2010
Pipelines 640 800
Core clock speed 1029 MHz 700 MHz
Boost Clock 1085 MHz
Transistor count 1,870 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 43.40 28.00
Floating-point performance 1,389 gflops 1,120.0 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 80.19 GB/s 64 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126 N/A
CUDA 5.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 180 Mh/s
Laptop size large
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