Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs Quadro M4000

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Quadro M4000, 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 M4000, check out specs charts below.

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:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Quadro M4000
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 120 Watt
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 4x DisplayPort
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  • Quadro M4000 has 140% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Quadro M4000 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • Quadro M4000 has 7 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is used in Laptops, and Quadro M4000 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro M4000 - with Maxwell 2.0.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro M4000 is 73 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Quadro M4000 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro M4000 is 5008 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 10−11 35−40
ultra / 1080p 6−7 21−24
QHD / 1440p 0−1 16−18
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 21−24 60−65
medium / 1080p 12−14 40−45
The average gaming FPS of Quadro M4000 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 215% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Quadro M4000
Architecture Terascale 2 Maxwell 2.0
Code name Broadway-XT GM204
Type Laptop Workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 29 June 2015
Pipelines 800 1664
Core clock speed 700 MHz 773 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 28.00 80.39
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops 2,573 gflops
Length 241 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 6008 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12
Shader Model 5.0 5
OpenGL 4.4 4.5
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan N/A +
CUDA 5.2
SLI options +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 299 Mh/s
Laptop size large
3D Vision Pro +
Mosaic +
Width 1" (2.5 cm)
Number of simultaneous displays 4
nView Desktop Management +
Multi-display synchronization Quadro Sync
High-Performance Video I/O6 +
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