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    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Quadro CX

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

    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

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro CX
    Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 150 Watt
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
    Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
    Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR3
    Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 1536 MB
    Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
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    • Quadro CX has 25% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
    • Quadro CX has 1534 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Quadro CX - in Desktops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro CX - with Tesla 2.0.
    • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is 98 MHz higher, than Quadro CX.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Quadro CX - by 55 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Quadro CX is 600 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 16−18 1−2
    ultra / 1080p 9−10 0−1
    QHD / 1440p 4−5 0−1
    low / 720p 30−35 10−12
    medium / 1080p 18−20 2−3
    The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 340% more, than Quadro CX.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro CX
    Architecture Terascale 2 Tesla 2.0
    Code name Broadway-XT GT200B
    Type Laptop Workstation
    Release date 7 January 2010 11 November 2008
    Pipelines 1600 192
    Core clock speed 700 MHz 602 MHz
    Transistor count 1,400 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
    Texture fill rate 38.53
    Floating-point performance 462.3 gflops
    Length 267 mm
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 384 Bit
    Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 1600 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 76.8 GB/s
    Shared memory -
    DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 11.1 (10_0)
    Shader Model 4.0
    OpenGL 3.3
    OpenCL 1.1
    Vulkan N/A
    CUDA 1.3
    Laptop size large
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