Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Quadro M3000M

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro M3000M, 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 M3000M, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro M3000M are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro M3000M 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 5870 Crossfire or Quadro M3000M here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro M3000M
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 75 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 4 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 60% more power consumption, than Quadro M3000M.
  • Quadro M3000M has 2 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Quadro M3000M - in Mobile workstations.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro M3000M - with Maxwell.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro M3000M is 350 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Quadro M3000M - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro M3000M is 4000 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 M3000M in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 125% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro M3000M
Architecture Terascale 2 Maxwell
Code name Broadway-XT GM204
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 2 October 2015
Pipelines 1600 1,024
Core clock speed 700 MHz 1050 MHz
Transistor count 5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 67.20
Floating-point performance 2,150 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 160 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 12
Shader Model 5.0
OpenGL 4.5
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126
CUDA 5.2
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 253 Mh/s
Laptop size large large
Optimus +
Display Port 1.2
3D Vision Pro +
Mosaic +
nView Display Management +
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