ATI Radeon HD 5490 vs NVIDIA NVS 510

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5490 and NVIDIA NVS 510 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: 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).

ATI Radeon HD 5490

NVIDIA NVS 510

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5490

Around 84% lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 35 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt vs 35 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA NVS 510

Around 23% higher core clock speed: 797 MHz vs 650 MHz
2.5x more texture fill rate: 12.75 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
2.4x more pipelines: 192 vs 80
2.9x better floating-point performance: 306.0 gflops vs 104.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
Around 78% higher memory clock speed: 1782 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Core clock speed	797 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	12.75 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	192 vs 80
Floating-point performance	306.0 gflops vs 104.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	1782 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5490
GPU 2: NVIDIA NVS 510

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5490	NVIDIA NVS 510
PassMark - G3D Mark		685
PassMark - G2D Mark		286
Geekbench - OpenCL		1699
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		6.809
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		111.269
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.399
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		7.769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		9.522
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1211
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		976
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1720
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1211
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		976
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1720

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5490	NVIDIA NVS 510
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Kepler
Code name	Cedar	GK107
Launch date	28 October 2012	23 October 2012
Place in performance rating	not rated	1450
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$449
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	797 MHz
Floating-point performance	104.0 gflops	306.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	80	192
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s	12.75 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	1,270 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	4x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	170 mm	160 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	28.51 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	1782 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR3