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    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs Quadro FX 3800

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Quadro FX 3800, 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 FX 3800, check out specs charts below.
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    Quadro FX 3800

    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:

    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Quadro FX 3800
    Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 108 Watt
    Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
    Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
    Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR3
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
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    • Quadro FX 3800 has 116% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Quadro FX 3800 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Quadro FX 3800 have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is used in Laptops, and Quadro FX 3800 - in Desktops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro FX 3800 - with Tesla 2.0.
    • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is 100 MHz higher, than Quadro FX 3800.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Quadro FX 3800 - by 55 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Quadro FX 3800 is 600 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 10−11 0−1
    ultra / 1080p 6−7 0−1
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
    low / 720p 21−24 10−11
    medium / 1080p 12−14 1−2
    The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 183% more, than Quadro FX 3800.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Quadro FX 3800
    Architecture Terascale 2 Tesla 2.0
    Code name Broadway-XT GT200B
    Type Laptop Workstation
    Release date 7 January 2010 30 March 2009
    Pipelines 800 192
    Core clock speed 700 MHz 600 MHz
    Transistor count 1,040 million 1,400 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
    Texture fill rate 28.00 38.40
    Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops 462.3 gflops
    Length 198 mm
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
    Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 1600 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 64 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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