AMD FirePro W5130M vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro W5130M and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD FirePro W5130M

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W5130M

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 6 month(s) later
4.5x more core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 64 MB
12x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 332 MHz
176.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1410 vs 8
Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 301 vs 247

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 October 2015 vs 6 March 2003
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 332 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1410 vs 8
PassMark - G2D Mark	301 vs 247

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

27x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 29.6 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 29.6 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro W5130M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1410

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

301

247

Name	AMD FirePro W5130M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100
PassMark - G3D Mark	1410	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	301	247
Geekbench - OpenCL	5224
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	22.588
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	505.57
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.885
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	30.114
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	89.784
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1879
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2090
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2582
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1879
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2090
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2582

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD FirePro W5130M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Rankine
Code name	Tropo	NV34 A1
Launch date	2 October 2015	6 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1116	699
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	925 MHz
Core clock speed	900 MHz	200 MHz
Floating-point performance	947.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	512
Texture fill rate	29.6 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Transistor count	1,500 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.5	1.5 (2.1)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	64 GB / s	2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	332 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
Enduro