Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Quadro P3200

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro P3200, 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 P3200, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro P3200 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro P3200 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 P3200 here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro P3200
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 6084 MB
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  • Quadro P3200 has 6082 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Quadro P3200 - in Mobile workstations.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro P3200 - with Pascal.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro P3200 is 8 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Quadro P3200 - by 16 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro P3200 is 6008 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 40−45
ultra / 1080p 9−10 24−27
QHD / 1440p 4−5 20−22
4K / 2160p 10−12
low / 720p 30−35 65−70
medium / 1080p 18−20 45−50
The average gaming FPS of Quadro P3200 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 150% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro P3200
Architecture Terascale 2 Pascal
Code name Broadway-XT N18E-Q1
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 27 February 2017
Pipelines 1600 1792
Core clock speed 700 MHz 708 - 1202 MHz
Boost Clock 1228 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 16 nm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 7008 MHz
Shared memory - -
DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 DirectX 12_1, Shader 5.0
Laptop size large large
Optimus +
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