Mobility Radeon HD 5830 vs Quadro FX 4800

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Quadro FX 4800, 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 5830 stacks up against Quadro FX 4800, check out specs charts below.

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 4800
Power consumption (TDP) 24 Watt 150 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 1536 MB
Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
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  • Quadro FX 4800 has 525% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Quadro FX 4800 has 1535 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 is used in Laptops, and Quadro FX 4800 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro FX 4800 - with Tesla 2.0.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro FX 4800 is 102 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Quadro FX 4800 - by 55 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro FX 4800 is 800 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 4−5 2−3
ultra / 1080p 2−3 0−1
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 16−18 12−14
medium / 1080p 6−7 3−4
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5830 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 50% more, than Quadro FX 4800.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Quadro FX 4800
Architecture Terascale 2 Tesla 2.0
Code name Broadway GT200B
Type Laptop Workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 11 November 2008
Pipelines 800 192
Core clock speed 500 MHz 602 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Texture fill rate 20.00 38.53
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 462.3 gflops
Length 267 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB/s 76.8 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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