Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs Quadro 3000M

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 and Quadro 3000M. 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 Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 and Quadro 3000M. 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.

Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 and Quadro 3000M are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 and Quadro 3000M 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 Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 or Quadro 3000M here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 Quadro 3000M
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Memory type GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Quadro 3000M uses MXM-B (3.0) interface.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 and Quadro 3000M have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 is used in Laptops, and Quadro 3000M - in Mobile workstations.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 is build with Terascale 1 architecture, and Quadro 3000M - with Fermi.
  • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 is 100 MHz higher, than Quadro 3000M.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Quadro 3000M - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 is 263 MHz higher, than Quadro 3000M.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 9−10 2−3
ultra / 1080p 5−6 1−2
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 21−24 12−14
medium / 1080p 12−14 4−5
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 140% more, than Quadro 3000M.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 Quadro 3000M
Architecture Terascale 1 Fermi
Code name M98-XT Fermi
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Release date 9 January 2009 22 February 2011
Pipelines 1600 240
Core clock speed 550 MHz 450 MHz
Transistor count 956 million 1,950 million
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 22.00 18.00
Floating-point performance 2x 880.0 gflops 432.0 gflops
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 888 MHz 625 MHz
Memory bandwidth 89.6 GB/s 80 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 10.1 (10_1) 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 4.1 5.1
OpenGL 3.3 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 2.1
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 28 Mh/s
Laptop size large large
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