Mobility Radeon HD 4870 vs Quadro FX 5800

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and Quadro FX 5800, 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 Mobility Radeon HD 4870 stacks up against Quadro FX 5800, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 4870 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 4870 here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 4870 Quadro FX 5800
Power consumption (TDP) 189 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
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  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Quadro FX 5800 has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is used in Laptops, and Quadro FX 5800 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is build with Terascale 1 architecture, and Quadro FX 5800 - with Tesla 2.0.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro FX 5800 is 60 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and Quadro FX 5800 are manufactured by 55 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro FX 5800 is 712 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 7−8 3−4
ultra / 1080p 4−5 1−2
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 16−18 14−16
medium / 1080p 8−9 5−6
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 4870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 50% more, than Quadro FX 5800.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 4870 Quadro FX 5800
Architecture Terascale 1 Tesla 2.0
Code name M98-XT GT200B
Type Laptop Workstation
Release date 9 January 2009 11 November 2008
Pipelines 800 240
Core clock speed 550 MHz 610 MHz
Transistor count 956 million 1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 55 nm
Texture fill rate 22.00 48.80
Floating-point performance 880.0 gflops 622.1 gflops
Length 267 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 888 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth 56.83 GB/s 102.4 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 10.1 (10_1) 11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model 4.1 4.0
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 1.3
Laptop size large
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