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    GeForce GTX 260 vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 260 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 GTX 260 stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, check out specs charts below.
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    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is a Laptop Graphics Card

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire 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 5870 Crossfire here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Laptops

    Main Specs

      GeForce GTX 260 Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
    Power consumption (TDP) 182 Watt 120 Watt
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
    Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
    Memory type GDDR3 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 896 MB 2x1 GB
    Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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    • GeForce GTX 260 has 51% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
    • GeForce GTX 260 has 894 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
    • GeForce GTX 260 is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - in Laptops.
    • GeForce GTX 260 is build with Tesla 2.0 architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
    • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 260 is 542 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
    • GeForce GTX 260 is manufactured by 65 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - by 40 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is 1 MHz higher, than GeForce GTX 260.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 3−4 16−18
    ultra / 1080p 1−2 9−10
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 4−5
    low / 720p 14−16 30−35
    medium / 1080p 5−6 18−20
    The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 216% more, than GeForce GTX 260.

    Full Specs

      GeForce GTX 260 Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
    Architecture Tesla 2.0 Terascale 2
    Code name GT200 Broadway-XT
    Type Desktop Laptop
    Release date 16 June 2008 7 January 2010
    Pipelines 192 1600
    Core clock speed 1242 MHz 700 MHz
    Transistor count 1,400 million
    Manufacturing process technology 65 nm 40 nm
    Texture fill rate 36.9 billion/sec
    Floating-point performance 476.9 gflops
    Length 10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
    Memory bus width 448 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 999 MHz 1000 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 111.9 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 192
    Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
    SLI options +
    Multi monitor support +
    HDMI +
    Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
    Audio input for HDMI S/PDIF
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 30 Mh/s
    Laptop size large
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