GeForce GTS 360M vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing GeForce GTS 360M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870. 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 GeForce GTS 360M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870. 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.

GeForce GTS 360M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce GTS 360M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 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 GeForce GTS 360M or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 here:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTS 360M Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Power consumption (TDP) 38 Watt 50 Watt
Interface MXM-II MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 has 31% more power consumption, than GeForce GTS 360M.
  • GeForce GTS 360M is connected by MXM-II, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 uses MXM-B (3.0) interface.
  • GeForce GTS 360M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTS 360M is build with GT2xx architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTS 360M is 736 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • GeForce GTS 360M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 10−11
ultra / 1080p 6−7
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 1−2 21−24
medium / 1080p 0−1 12−14
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 2100% more, than GeForce GTS 360M.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTS 360M Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Architecture GT2xx Terascale 2
Code name N11E-GS1 Broadway-XT
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 7 January 2010 7 January 2010
Pipelines 96 800
Core clock speed 1436 MHz 700 MHz
Transistor count 727 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 17.60 28.00
Floating-point performance 275.71 gflops 1,120.0 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 57.6 GB/s 64 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 11.1 (10_1) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 4.1 5.0
OpenGL 2.1 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA +
CUDA cores 96
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
SLI options +
HDMI +
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Laptop size large large
Gigaflops 413
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management 8.0
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