Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Quadro 5000

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro 5000, 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 Crossfire stacks up against Quadro 5000, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire 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 Crossfire here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro 5000
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 152 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 2.5 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
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  • Quadro 5000 has 26% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro 5000 have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Quadro 5000 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro 5000 - with Fermi.
  • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is 187 MHz higher, than Quadro 5000.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro 5000 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro 5000 is 2000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 9−10
ultra / 1080p 9−10 5−6
QHD / 1440p 4−5 0−1
low / 720p 30−35 21−24
medium / 1080p 18−20 12−14
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 58% more, than Quadro 5000.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro 5000
Architecture Terascale 2 Fermi
Code name Broadway-XT GF100
Type Laptop Workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 23 February 2011
Pipelines 1600 352
Core clock speed 700 MHz 513 MHz
Transistor count 3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 22.57
Floating-point performance 722.3 gflops
Length 248 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 320 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 3000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 120.0 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan N/A
CUDA 2.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 66 Mh/s
Laptop size large
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