Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Quadro K5100M

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro K5100M, 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 K5100M, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro K5100M are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro K5100M 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 K5100M here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro K5100M
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 100 Watt
Interface MXM-B (3.0)
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 8 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 20% more power consumption, than Quadro K5100M.
  • Quadro K5100M has 6 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Quadro K5100M - in Mobile workstations.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro K5100M - with Kepler.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro K5100M is 71 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Quadro K5100M - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro K5100M is 2600 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 14−16
ultra / 1080p 9−10 8−9
QHD / 1440p 4−5 3−4
low / 720p 30−35 30−35
medium / 1080p 18−20 18−20
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 6% more, than Quadro K5100M.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro K5100M
Architecture Terascale 2 Kepler
Code name Broadway-XT N15E-Q5-A2
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 23 July 2013
Pipelines 1600 1536
Core clock speed 700 MHz 771 MHz
Transistor count 3,540 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 98.69
Floating-point performance 2,369 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth 115.2 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 12
Shader Model 5
OpenGL 4.5
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126
CUDA +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 35 Mh/s
Laptop size large large
Optimus +
Display Port 1.2
3D Vision Pro +
Mosaic +
nView Display Management +
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