Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Quadro K5200

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro K5200, 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 K5200, 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 K5200
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 150 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 8 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
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  • Quadro K5200 has 25% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Quadro K5200 has 6 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Quadro K5200 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro K5200 - with Kepler.
  • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is 33 MHz higher, than Quadro K5200.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Quadro K5200 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro K5200 is 5008 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 35−40
ultra / 1080p 9−10 21−24
QHD / 1440p 4−5 16−18
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 30−35 60−65
medium / 1080p 18−20 40−45
The average gaming FPS of Quadro K5200 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 125% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro K5200
Architecture Terascale 2 Kepler
Code name Broadway-XT GK110B
Type Laptop Workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 22 July 2014
Pipelines 1600 2304
Core clock speed 700 MHz 667 MHz
Boost Clock 771 MHz
Transistor count 7,080 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 148.0
Floating-point performance 3,553 gflops
Length 267 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 6008 MHz
Memory bandwidth 192.3 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 12 (11_1)
Shader Model 5.1
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126
CUDA 3.5
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 226 Mh/s
Laptop size large
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