Mobility Radeon HD 5830 vs Quadro FX 3800

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Quadro FX 3800. 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 5830 and Quadro FX 3800. 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 5830 is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5830 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 5830 here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Quadro FX 3800
Power consumption (TDP) 24 Watt 108 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3 GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
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  • Quadro FX 3800 has 350% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Quadro FX 3800 have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 is used in Laptops, and Quadro FX 3800 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro FX 3800 - with Tesla 2.0.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro FX 3800 is 100 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Quadro FX 3800 - by 55 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro FX 3800 is 800 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 4−5 0−1
ultra / 1080p 2−3 0−1
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 16−18 10−11
medium / 1080p 6−7 1−2
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5830 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 83% more, than Quadro FX 3800.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Quadro FX 3800
Architecture Terascale 2 Tesla 2.0
Code name Broadway GT200B
Type Laptop Workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 30 March 2009
Pipelines 800 192
Core clock speed 500 MHz 600 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Texture fill rate 20.00 38.40
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 462.3 gflops
Length 198 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB/s 51.2 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model 5.0 4.0
OpenGL 4.4 3.3
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 1.3
Laptop size large
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