Quadro T1200 Mobile vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated285
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data75.31
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameCypressTU117
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date11 March 2010 (14 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$479 no data

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 cores16001024
Core clock speed850 MHz855 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1425 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)228 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate68.0091.20
Floating-point processing power2.72 TFLOPS2.918 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs8064

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length279 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s160.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors6x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.6
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 March 2010 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 228 Watt 18 Watt

T1200 Mobile has an age advantage of 11 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 233.3% more advanced lithography process, and 1166.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and Quadro T1200 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 is a desktop card while Quadro T1200 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
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