Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Quadro FX 3800

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro FX 3800, 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 FX 3800, 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

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro FX 3800
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 108 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 11% more power consumption, than Quadro FX 3800.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 1 GB more memory, than Quadro FX 3800.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Quadro FX 3800 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro FX 3800 - with Tesla 2.0.
  • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is 100 MHz higher, than Quadro FX 3800.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Quadro FX 3800 - by 55 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro FX 3800 is 600 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 0−1
ultra / 1080p 9−10 0−1
QHD / 1440p 4−5 0−1
low / 720p 30−35 10−11
medium / 1080p 18−20 1−2
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 316% more, than Quadro FX 3800.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro FX 3800
Architecture Terascale 2 Tesla 2.0
Code name Broadway-XT GT200B
Type Laptop Workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 30 March 2009
Pipelines 1600 192
Core clock speed 700 MHz 600 MHz
Transistor count 1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Texture fill rate 38.40
Floating-point performance 462.3 gflops
Length 198 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth 51.2 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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