GRID K2 vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GRID K2 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 GRID K2 stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 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 here:

Main Specs

  GRID K2 Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 50 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • GRID K2 has 350% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • GRID K2 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 uses MXM-B (3.0) interface.
  • GRID K2 has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • GRID K2 is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - in Laptops.
  • GRID K2 is build with Kepler architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GRID K2 is 45 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • GRID K2 is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GRID K2 is 4000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 10−11
ultra / 1080p 9−10 6−7
QHD / 1440p 4−5 0−1
4K / 2160p 4−5
low / 720p 30−35 21−24
medium / 1080p 20−22 12−14
The average gaming FPS of GRID K2 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 53% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Full Specs

  GRID K2 Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Architecture Kepler Terascale 2
Code name GK104 Broadway-XT
Type Workstation Laptop
Release date 11 May 2013 7 January 2010
Pipelines 1536 800
Core clock speed 745 MHz 700 MHz
Transistor count 3,540 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 95.36 28.00
Floating-point performance 2x 2,289 gflops 1,120.0 gflops
Length 267 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB/s 64 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126 N/A
CUDA 3.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 114 Mh/s
Laptop size large
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