Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs Tesla M10

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Tesla M10. 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 Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Tesla M10. 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.

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

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Tesla M10
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 225 Watt
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • Tesla M10 has 350% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Tesla M10 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • Tesla M10 has 7 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is used in Laptops, and Tesla M10 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Tesla M10 - with Maxwell.
  • Core clock speed of Tesla M10 is 333 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Tesla M10 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Tesla M10 is 4200 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 10−11 18−20
ultra / 1080p 6−7 10−11
QHD / 1440p 0−1 4−5
4K / 2160p 4−5
low / 720p 21−24 35−40
medium / 1080p 12−14 21−24
The average gaming FPS of Tesla M10 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 69% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Tesla M10
Architecture Terascale 2 Maxwell
Code name Broadway-XT GM107
Type Laptop Workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 18 May 2016
Pipelines 800 640
Core clock speed 700 MHz 1033 MHz
Boost Clock 1306 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 28.00 52.24
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops 4x 1,672 gflops
Length 267 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 5200 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 83.2 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan N/A 1.1.126
CUDA 5.0
Laptop size large
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