NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs NVIDIA Quadro 5010M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 945A and NVIDIA Quadro 5010M 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: 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 945A

NVIDIA Quadro 5010M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 945A

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 31% higher texture fill rate: 28.22 GTexel / s vs 21.6 GTexel / s
Around 31% better floating-point performance: 903.2 gflops vs 691.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
3x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 100 Watt
Around 99% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 32359 vs 16261
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 716 vs 297
Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1852 vs 1691

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 22 February 2011
Core clock speed	1072 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	28.22 GTexel / s vs 21.6 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	903.2 gflops vs 691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 100 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	32359 vs 16261
PassMark - G2D Mark	716 vs 297
PassMark - G3D Mark	1852 vs 1691

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 5010M

2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 44% higher memory clock speed: 2600 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	2600 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 945A
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 5010M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

32359

16261

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

716

297

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1852

1691

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 945A	NVIDIA Quadro 5010M
Geekbench - OpenCL	32359	16261
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	28.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	381.898
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.991
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	30.793
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	107.63
PassMark - G2D Mark	716	297
PassMark - G3D Mark	1852	1691

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 945A	NVIDIA Quadro 5010M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Fermi 2.0
Code name	GM108	GF110
Launch date	13 March 2015	22 February 2011
Place in performance rating	603	605
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Price now		$235.95
Value for money (0-100)		10.17
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz
Core clock speed	1072 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	903.2 gflops	691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	384
Texture fill rate	28.22 GTexel / s	21.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count		3,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	83.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	2600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5 ECC
Shared memory		0
Technologies
ECC (Error Correcting Code)