Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Quadro 5010M

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro 5010M. 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 5870 Crossfire and Quadro 5010M. 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 5870 Crossfire and Quadro 5010M are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro 5010M 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 5870 Crossfire or Quadro 5010M here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro 5010M
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 100 Watt
Interface MXM-B (3.0)
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5 ECC
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 4 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 20% more power consumption, than Quadro 5010M.
  • Quadro 5010M has 2 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Quadro 5010M - in Mobile workstations.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro 5010M - with Fermi.
  • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is 250 MHz higher, than Quadro 5010M.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro 5010M are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro 5010M is 300 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 9−10
ultra / 1080p 9−10 6−7
QHD / 1440p 4−5 0−1
low / 720p 30−35 21−24
medium / 1080p 18−20 12−14
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 58% more, than Quadro 5010M.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro 5010M
Architecture Terascale 2 Fermi
Code name Broadway-XT N12E-Q5
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 22 February 2011
Pipelines 1600 384
Core clock speed 700 MHz 450 MHz
Transistor count 3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 21.60
Floating-point performance 691.2 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 1300 MHz
Memory bandwidth 83.2 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan N/A
CUDA 2.0
Laptop size large large
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