GeForce GTX 770 vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 770 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 770 stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, check out specs charts below.

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:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 770 Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Power consumption (TDP) 230 Watt 120 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors One 8-pin and one 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2x1 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • GeForce GTX 770 has 91% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • GeForce GTX 770 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
  • GeForce GTX 770 is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTX 770 is build with Kepler architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 770 is 346 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • GeForce GTX 770 is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 770 is 6012 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 35−40 16−18
ultra / 1080p 21−24 9−10
QHD / 1440p 16−18 4−5
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 60−65 30−35
medium / 1080p 40−45 18−20
The average gaming FPS of GeForce GTX 770 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 125% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 770 Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Architecture Kepler Terascale 2
Code name GK104 Broadway-XT
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 30 May 2013 7 January 2010
Pipelines 1536 1600
Core clock speed 1046 MHz 700 MHz
Boost Clock 1085 MHz
Transistor count 3,540 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 134 billion/sec
Floating-point performance 3,333 gflops
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 224.3 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_0) DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
Shader Model 5.1
OpenGL 4.3
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126
CUDA +
CUDA cores 1536
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Multi monitor support 4 displays
HDMI +
HDCP +
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI Internal
3D Gaming +
3D Vision +
3D Vision Live +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 113 Mh/s
Laptop size large
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 3.9 Mh/s
Blu Ray 3D +
Minimum recommended system power 600 Watt
PhysX +
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