Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs Quadro 5000M

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

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Quadro 5000M are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Quadro 5000M 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 5000M here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Quadro 5000M
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 100 Watt
Interface MXM-B (3.0) MXM-B (3.0)
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • Quadro 5000M has 100% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Both video cards are using MXM-B (3.0) interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Quadro 5000M has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is used in Laptops, and Quadro 5000M - in Mobile workstations.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro 5000M - with Fermi.
  • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is 295 MHz higher, than Quadro 5000M.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Quadro 5000M are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro 5000M is 200 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 10−11 10−11
ultra / 1080p 6−7 6−7
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 21−24 21−24
medium / 1080p 12−14 12−14
Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Quadro 5000M have the same average FPS in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Quadro 5000M
Architecture Terascale 2 Fermi
Code name Broadway-XT Fermi
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 27 July 2010
Pipelines 800 320
Core clock speed 700 MHz 405 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 28.00 16.20
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops 518.4 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 76.8 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 1.1
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA +
Laptop size large large
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