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    Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs Quadro 500M

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 and Quadro 500M, 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 X2 stacks up against Quadro 500M, check out specs charts below.
    Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 Check Price
    Quadro 500M

    Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 is a Laptop Graphics Card

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 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 X2 here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 Quadro 500M
    Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-A (3.0)
    Memory type GDDR3, GDDR5 DDR3
    Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 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 500M uses MXM-A (3.0) interface.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 has 1 GB more memory, than Quadro 500M.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 is used in Laptops, and Quadro 500M - in Desktops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 is build with Terascale 1 architecture, and Quadro 500M - with Fermi.
    • Core clock speed of Quadro 500M is 150 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Quadro 500M - by 40 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Quadro 500M is 912 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 9−10 0−1
    ultra / 1080p 5−6 −
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
    low / 720p 21−24 1−2
    medium / 1080p 12−14 0−1
    The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 2100% more, than Quadro 500M.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 Quadro 500M
    Architecture Terascale 1 Fermi
    Code name M98-XT GF108
    Type Laptop Workstation
    Release date 9 January 2009 22 February 2011
    Pipelines 1600 96
    Core clock speed 550 MHz 700 MHz
    Transistor count 956 million 585 million
    Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 40 nm
    Texture fill rate 22.00 11.20
    Floating-point performance 2x 880.0 gflops 268.8 gflops
    Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 888 MHz 1800 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 89.6 GB/s 28.8 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
    Laptop size large
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