Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Tesla M6

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Tesla M6, 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 Tesla M6, 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 Tesla M6
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 100 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
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 Tesla M6.
  • Tesla M6 has 6 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Tesla M6 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Tesla M6 - with Maxwell 2.0.
  • Core clock speed of Tesla M6 is 230 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Tesla M6 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Tesla M6 is 4012 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 35−40
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 Tesla M6 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 143% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Tesla M6
Architecture Terascale 2 Maxwell 2.0
Code name Broadway-XT GM204
Type Laptop Workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 30 August 2015
Pipelines 1600 1536
Core clock speed 700 MHz 930 MHz
Boost Clock 1180 MHz
Transistor count 5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 113.3
Floating-point performance 3,625 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth 160.4 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 12 (12_1)
Shader Model 6.4
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126
CUDA 5.2
Laptop size large
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