GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q and Mobility Radeon HD 5870, 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 GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870, check out specs charts below.

GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q 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 GTX 1070 Max Q or Mobility Radeon HD 5870 here:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 50 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q has 130% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 uses MXM-B (3.0) interface.
  • GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q has 7 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q is build with Pascal architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q is 401 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q is manufactured by 16 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q is 7000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 35−40 10−11
ultra / 1080p 21−24 6−7
QHD / 1440p 16−18 0−1
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 60−65 21−24
medium / 1080p 40−45 12−14
The average gaming FPS of GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 215% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Architecture Pascal Terascale 2
Code name N17E-G2 Max-Q Broadway-XT
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 30 May 2017 7 January 2010
Pipelines 2048 800
Core clock speed 1101 - 1215 MHz 700 MHz
Boost Clock 1265 - 1379 MHz
Transistor count 7,200 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 176.5 28.00
Floating-point performance 5,648 gflops 1,120.0 gflops
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 256.3 GB/s 64 GB/s
Shared memory - -
G-SYNC support +
VR Ready +
DirectX 12 (12_1) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 6.4 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2.131 N/A
CUDA 6.1
Laptop size large large
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