Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Quadro 7000

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro 7000, 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 7000, 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 7000
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 204 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 6 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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  • Quadro 7000 has 70% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Quadro 7000 has 4 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Quadro 7000 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro 7000 - with Fermi 2.0.
  • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is 49 MHz higher, than Quadro 7000.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro 7000 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro 7000 is 2404 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 18−20
ultra / 1080p 9−10 10−11
QHD / 1440p 4−5 4−5
4K / 2160p 4−5
low / 720p 30−35 35−40
medium / 1080p 18−20 21−24
The average gaming FPS of Quadro 7000 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 12% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro 7000
Architecture Terascale 2 Fermi 2.0
Code name Broadway-XT GF110
Type Laptop Workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 2 May 2012
Pipelines 1600 512
Core clock speed 700 MHz 651 MHz
Transistor count 3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 41.66
Floating-point performance 1,332 gflops
Length 248 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 3404 MHz
Memory bandwidth 163.4 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
Laptop size large
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