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).

 

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 287
Geekbench - OpenCL 1700
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 1435
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