GeForce MX130 vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce MX130 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 MX130 stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870, check out specs charts below.

GeForce MX130 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce MX130 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 MX130 or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 here:

Main Specs

  GeForce MX130 Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 50 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type GDDR5, DDR3 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 has 66% more power consumption, than GeForce MX130.
  • GeForce MX130 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 uses MXM-B (3.0) interface.
  • GeForce MX130 has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce MX130 is build with Maxwell architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce MX130 is 422 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • GeForce MX130 is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce MX130 is 4012 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 9−10 10−11
ultra / 1080p 5−6 6−7
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 21−24 21−24
medium / 1080p 10−12 12−14
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 8% more, than GeForce MX130.

Full Specs

  GeForce MX130 Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Architecture Maxwell Terascale 2
Code name N16S-GTR Broadway-XT
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 1 January 2018 7 January 2010
Pipelines 384 800
Core clock speed 1122 MHz 700 MHz
Boost Clock 1242 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 29.81 28.00
Floating-point performance 953.9 gflops 1,120.0 gflops
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 40.1 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 +
Laptop size medium sized large
Optimus +
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