Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs Quadro M500M

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro M500M. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro M500M. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro M500M are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro M500M 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 M500M here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro M500M
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 30 Watt
Interface MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire has 300% more power consumption, than Quadro M500M.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro M500M have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Quadro M500M - in Mobile workstations.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro M500M - with Maxwell.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro M500M is 329 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Quadro M500M - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro M500M is 3004 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 0−1
ultra / 1080p 9−10
QHD / 1440p 4−5 0−1
low / 720p 30−35 12−14
medium / 1080p 18−20 3−4
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 212% more, than Quadro M500M.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire Quadro M500M
Architecture Terascale 2 Maxwell
Code name Broadway-XT GM108
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 15 December 2015
Pipelines 1600 384
Core clock speed 700 MHz 1029 MHz
Boost Clock 1124 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 17.98
Floating-point performance 863.2 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 4004 MHz
Memory bandwidth 14.4 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 5.0
Laptop size large large
Optimus +
nView Display Management +
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