Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Quadro K5000

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro K5000. 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 K5000. 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 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 K5000
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 122 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 4 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
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  • Quadro K5000 has 1% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Quadro K5000 has 2 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Quadro K5000 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro K5000 - with Kepler.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro K5000 is 6 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Quadro K5000 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro K5000 is 4400 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 20−22
ultra / 1080p 9−10 12−14
QHD / 1440p 4−5 6−7
4K / 2160p 5−6
low / 720p 30−35 35−40
medium / 1080p 18−20 24−27
The average gaming FPS of Quadro K5000 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 25% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro K5000
Architecture Terascale 2 Kepler
Code name Broadway-XT GK104
Type Laptop Workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 17 August 2012
Pipelines 1600 1536
Core clock speed 700 MHz 706 MHz
Transistor count 3,540 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 90.37
Floating-point performance 2,169 gflops
Length 267 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 5400 MHz
Memory bandwidth 172.8 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126
CUDA 3.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 111 Mh/s
Laptop size large
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 2.2 Mh/s
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