Mobility Radeon HD 4870 vs Quadro K5000M

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and Quadro K5000M, 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 4870 stacks up against Quadro K5000M, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and Quadro K5000M are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and Quadro K5000M 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 4870 or Quadro K5000M here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 4870 Quadro K5000M
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Quadro K5000M uses MXM-B (3.0) interface.
  • Quadro K5000M has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is used in Laptops, and Quadro K5000M - in Mobile workstations.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is build with Terascale 1 architecture, and Quadro K5000M - with Kepler.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro K5000M is 156 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Quadro K5000M - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro K5000M is 2112 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 7−8 16−18
ultra / 1080p 4−5 9−10
QHD / 1440p 0−1 4−5
4K / 2160p 4−5
low / 720p 16−18 30−35
medium / 1080p 8−9 20−22
The average gaming FPS of Quadro K5000M in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 122% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 4870 Quadro K5000M
Architecture Terascale 1 Kepler
Code name M98-XT N14E-Q5
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Release date 9 January 2009 1 June 2012
Pipelines 800 1344
Core clock speed 550 MHz 706 MHz
Transistor count 956 million 3,540 million
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 22.00 67.31
Floating-point performance 880.0 gflops 1,615 gflops
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 888 MHz 3000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 56.83 GB/s 96 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 10.1 (10_1) 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 4.1 5.1
OpenGL 3.3 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A 1.1.126
CUDA +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 51 Mh/s
Laptop size large large
Optimus +
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