Quadro P4200 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire with Quadro P4200, including specs and performance data.

ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire
2010
2x1 GB DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5, 120 Watt
4.69

P4200 outperforms Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire by a whopping 394% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking691267
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.0017.83
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameBroadway-XTGP104
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date7 January 2010 (16 years ago)21 February 2018 (7 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16002304
Core clock speed700 MHz1227 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1647 MHz
Number of transistorsno data7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rateno data237.2
Floating-point processing powerno data7.589 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data144
L1 Cacheno data864 KB
L2 Cacheno data2 MB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargelarge
Interfaceno dataMXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2x1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.3 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus-+

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p53
−391%
260−270
+391%
Full HD54
−381%
260−270
+381%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low

Counter-Strike 2 21−24
−538%
130−140
+538%
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
−410%
50−55
+410%
Hogwarts Legacy 10−11
−380%
45−50
+380%

Full HD
Medium

Battlefield 5 18−20
−395%
90−95
+395%
Counter-Strike 2 21−24
−538%
130−140
+538%
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
−410%
50−55
+410%
Far Cry 5 14−16
−450%
75−80
+450%
Fortnite 27−30
−318%
110−120
+318%
Forza Horizon 4 21−24
−327%
90−95
+327%
Forza Horizon 5 12−14
−477%
75−80
+477%
Hogwarts Legacy 10−11
−380%
45−50
+380%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 18−20
−389%
90−95
+389%
Valorant 60−65
−173%
160−170
+173%

Full HD
High

Battlefield 5 18−20
−395%
90−95
+395%
Counter-Strike 2 21−24
−538%
130−140
+538%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 80−85
−212%
250−260
+212%
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
−410%
50−55
+410%
Dota 2 40−45
−195%
120−130
+195%
Far Cry 5 14−16
−450%
75−80
+450%
Fortnite 27−30
−318%
110−120
+318%
Forza Horizon 4 21−24
−327%
90−95
+327%
Forza Horizon 5 12−14
−477%
75−80
+477%
Grand Theft Auto V 14−16
−473%
85−90
+473%
Hogwarts Legacy 10−11
−380%
45−50
+380%
Metro Exodus 9−10
−478%
50−55
+478%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 18−20
−389%
90−95
+389%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 12−14
−438%
70−75
+438%
Valorant 60−65
−173%
160−170
+173%

Full HD
Ultra

Battlefield 5 18−20
−395%
90−95
+395%
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
−410%
50−55
+410%
Dota 2 40−45
−195%
120−130
+195%
Far Cry 5 14−16
−450%
75−80
+450%
Forza Horizon 4 21−24
−327%
90−95
+327%
Hogwarts Legacy 10−11
−380%
45−50
+380%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 18−20
−389%
90−95
+389%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 12−14
−438%
70−75
+438%
Valorant 60−65
−173%
160−170
+173%

Full HD
Epic

Fortnite 27−30
−318%
110−120
+318%

1440p
High

Counter-Strike 2 9−10
−456%
50−55
+456%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 35−40
−367%
160−170
+367%
Grand Theft Auto V 3−4
−1367%
40−45
+1367%
Metro Exodus 3−4
−967%
30−35
+967%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 35−40
−400%
170−180
+400%
Valorant 50−55
−296%
200−210
+296%

1440p
Ultra

Battlefield 5 4−5
−1550%
65−70
+1550%
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
−667%
21−24
+667%
Far Cry 5 9−10
−500%
50−55
+500%
Forza Horizon 4 10−12
−445%
60−65
+445%
Hogwarts Legacy 5−6
−420%
24−27
+420%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 7−8
−443%
35−40
+443%

1440p
Epic

Fortnite 9−10
−533%
55−60
+533%

4K
High

Grand Theft Auto V 16−18
−175%
40−45
+175%
Hogwarts Legacy 0−1 14−16
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2
−3400%
35−40
+3400%
Valorant 24−27
−475%
130−140
+475%

4K
Ultra

Battlefield 5 2−3
−1700%
35−40
+1700%
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
−900%
10−11
+900%
Dota 2 16−18
−388%
75−80
+388%
Far Cry 5 4−5
−600%
27−30
+600%
Forza Horizon 4 6−7
−583%
40−45
+583%
Hogwarts Legacy 0−1 14−16
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 5−6
−400%
24−27
+400%

4K
Epic

Fortnite 5−6
−420%
24−27
+420%

4K
High

Counter-Strike 2 21−24
+0%
21−24
+0%
Metro Exodus 20−22
+0%
20−22
+0%

4K
Ultra

Counter-Strike 2 21−24
+0%
21−24
+0%

This is how ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire and Quadro P4200 compete in popular games:

  • Quadro P4200 is 391% faster in 900p
  • Quadro P4200 is 381% faster in 1080p

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with 4K resolution and the High Preset, the Quadro P4200 is 3400% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • Quadro P4200 performs better in 61 tests (95%)
  • there's a draw in 3 tests (5%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 4.69 23.19
Recency 7 January 2010 21 February 2018
Chip lithography 40 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 100 Watt

Quadro P4200 has a 394.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, a 150% more advanced lithography process, and 20% lower power consumption.

The Quadro P4200 is our recommended choice as it beats the Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in performance tests.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is a notebook graphics card while Quadro P4200 is a mobile workstation one.

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