NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M SLI vs NVIDIA NVS 5400M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M SLI and NVIDIA NVS 5400M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M SLI

NVIDIA NVS 5400M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M SLI

Around 9% higher core clock speed: 720 MHz vs 660 MHz
28x more pipelines: 2688 vs 96
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2x 4 GB vs 2 GB
2x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Core clock speed	720 MHz vs 660 MHz
Pipelines	2688 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2x 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M SLI
GPU 2: NVIDIA NVS 5400M

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M SLI	NVIDIA NVS 5400M
PassMark - G3D Mark		626
PassMark - G2D Mark		187
Geekbench - OpenCL		2070
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		5.068
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		229.562
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.635
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		11.384
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		19.696
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1652
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2282
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1652
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2282

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M SLI	NVIDIA NVS 5400M
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Fermi
Code name	N13E-GTX	GF108
Launch date	4 June 2012	1 June 2012
Place in performance rating	not rated	1445
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	720 MHz	660 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	2688	96
Floating-point performance		253.4 gflops
Texture fill rate		10.56 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		35 Watt
Transistor count		585 million
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	large	medium sized
Interface		MXM
API support
DirectX	11	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 4 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Memory bandwidth		28.8 GB / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Technologies
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
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