GeForce GTS 160M vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTS 160M 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 GTS 160M stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, check out specs charts below.

GeForce GTS 160M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce GTS 160M 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 GTS 160M or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire here:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTS 160M Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 120 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory type GDDR3 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2x1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 100% more power consumption, than GeForce GTS 160M.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 1 GB more memory, than GeForce GTS 160M.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTS 160M is build with G9x architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTS 160M is 800 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • GeForce GTS 160M is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - by 40 nm process technology.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 16−18
ultra / 1080p 9−10
QHD / 1440p 0−1 4−5
low / 720p 1−2 30−35
medium / 1080p 0−1 18−20
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 3100% more, than GeForce GTS 160M.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTS 160M Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Architecture G9x Terascale 2
Code name N10E-GS1 Broadway-XT
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 2 March 2009 7 January 2010
Pipelines 64 1600
Core clock speed 1500 MHz 700 MHz
Transistor count 505 million
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 19 billion/sec
Floating-point performance 192 gflops
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 51 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 11.1 (10_0) DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
Shader Model 4.0
OpenGL 2.1
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan N/A
CUDA +
CUDA cores 64
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
SLI options 2-way
HDMI +
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI S/PDIF
Laptop size large large
Gigaflops 288
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management 8.0
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