Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs Quadro P500

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Quadro P500, 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 stacks up against Quadro P500, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Quadro P500 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Quadro P500 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 or Quadro P500 here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Quadro P500
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 30 Watt
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 3x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 has 66% more power consumption, than Quadro P500.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Quadro P500 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • Quadro P500 has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is used in Laptops, and Quadro P500 - in Mobile workstations.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro P500 - with Pascal.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro P500 is 755 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Quadro P500 - by 14 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro P500 is 4012 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 10−11 8−9
ultra / 1080p 6−7 5−6
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 21−24 18−20
medium / 1080p 12−14 10−11
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 30% more, than Quadro P500.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Quadro P500
Architecture Terascale 2 Pascal
Code name Broadway-XT GP108
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 14 November 2017
Pipelines 800 256
Core clock speed 700 MHz 1455 MHz
Boost Clock 1519 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 14 nm
Texture fill rate 28.00 21.25
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops 679.9 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 32.1 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12.1
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan N/A 1.1.0.1
CUDA 6.1
Laptop size large large
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