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    GeForce GTX 970M vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

    Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing GeForce GTX 970M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire. 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 970M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire. 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 970M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: GeForce GTX 970M 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 970M or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire here:

    GeForce GTX 970M Laptops
    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Laptops

    Main Specs

      GeForce GTX 970M Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
    Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt
    Interface MXM-B (3.0)
    Supplementary power connectors None
    Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 2x1 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs
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    • GeForce GTX 970M has 4 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • GeForce GTX 970M is build with Maxwell architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
    • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 970M is 224 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
    • GeForce GTX 970M is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - by 40 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 970M is 1500 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 35−40 16−18
    ultra / 1080p 21−24 9−10
    QHD / 1440p 16−18 4−5
    4K / 2160p 10−11 −
    low / 720p 60−65 30−35
    medium / 1080p 40−45 18−20
    The average gaming FPS of GeForce GTX 970M in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 125% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

    Full Specs

      GeForce GTX 970M Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
    Architecture Maxwell Terascale 2
    Code name GM204 Broadway-XT
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 7 October 2014 7 January 2010
    Pipelines 1280 1600
    Core clock speed 924 MHz 700 MHz
    Boost Clock 1038 MHz
    Transistor count 5,200 million
    Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
    Texture fill rate 83.04
    Floating-point performance 2,657 gflops
    Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 2500 MHz 1000 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 120 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    G-SYNC support +
    DirectX 12 (12_1) DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
    Shader Model 6.4
    OpenGL 4.5
    OpenCL 1.1
    Vulkan 1.1.126
    CUDA +
    CUDA cores 1280
    Bus support PCI Express 3.0
    SLI options +
    HDMI +
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 314 Mh/s
    Laptop size large large
    DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support +
    H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder +
    Optimus +
    GameStream +
    GeForce ShadowPlay +
    GPU Boost 2.0
    GameWorks +
    BatteryBoost +
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