ATI FirePro M7820 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M

Comparative analysis of ATI FirePro M7820 and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI FirePro M7820

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro M7820

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 56% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 450 MHz
2.6x more texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 10.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
3.3x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Launch date	1 May 2010 vs 21 August 2006
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s vs 10.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M

Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI FirePro M7820
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M

Name	ATI FirePro M7820	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.956
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	600.944
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2709
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2709
Geekbench - OpenCL	15792
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.869
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	21.146
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	103.902
PassMark - G2D Mark		111
PassMark - G3D Mark		238

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI FirePro M7820	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Broadway	G71
Launch date	1 May 2010	21 August 2006
Place in performance rating	1276	1279
Type	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	800
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s	10.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	19.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0