GeForce MX150 vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce MX150 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 MX150 stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, check out specs charts below.

GeForce MX150 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce MX150 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 MX150 or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire here:

Main Specs

  GeForce MX150 Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 120 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2x1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 1100% more power consumption, than GeForce MX150.
  • GeForce MX150 has 2 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce MX150 is build with Pascal architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce MX150 is 768 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • GeForce MX150 is manufactured by 14 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce MX150 is 5008 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 12−14 16−18
ultra / 1080p 7−8 9−10
QHD / 1440p 1−2 4−5
low / 720p 24−27 30−35
medium / 1080p 14−16 18−20
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 33% more, than GeForce MX150.

Full Specs

  GeForce MX150 Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Architecture Pascal Terascale 2
Code name N17S-G1 Broadway-XT
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 16 May 2017 7 January 2010
Pipelines 384 1600
Core clock speed 1468 MHz 700 MHz
Boost Clock 1532 MHz
Transistor count 1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 24.91
Floating-point performance 1,127 gflops
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 40.1 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 12 (12_1) DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
Shader Model 6.4
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan 1.2.131
CUDA 6.1
Laptop size large large
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