NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100 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: 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 0 month(s) later
4.7x more core clock speed: 941 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
48x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 64 MB
435x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3480 vs 8
Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 278 vs 247

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 March 2014 vs 6 March 2003
Core clock speed	941 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 64 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3480 vs 8
PassMark - G2D Mark	278 vs 247

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

7.4x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 108.3 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 108.3 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3480

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

278

247

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100
PassMark - G3D Mark	3480	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	278	247
Geekbench - OpenCL	12737
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	34.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	960.114
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.038
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	59.57
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	81.753
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6350
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6350
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1336

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Rankine
Code name	GK104	NV34 A1
Launch date	12 March 2014	6 March 2003
Place in performance rating	718	715
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	967 MHz
Core clock speed	941 MHz	200 MHz
CUDA cores	1344
Floating-point performance	2,599 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	1344
Texture fill rate	108.3 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support	Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support	Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support	Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	AGP 8x
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	120.0 GB / s	2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	64 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Standard memory configuration	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		332 MHz
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
BatteryBoost
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
TXAA