NVIDIA NVS 5100M vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA NVS 5100M and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA NVS 5100M

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA NVS 5100M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 57% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 350 MHz
Around 73% higher texture fill rate: 8.8 GTexel / s vs 5.1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 8 December 2005
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s vs 5.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 192 vs 188
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 72 vs 63

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	192 vs 188
PassMark - G2D Mark	72 vs 63

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA NVS 5100M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

188

192

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA NVS 5100M	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	188	192
PassMark - G2D Mark	63	72
Geekbench - OpenCL	6549
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2747
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2747

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA NVS 5100M	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Curie
Code name	GT216	NV40 A1
Launch date	7 January 2010	8 December 2005
Place in performance rating	1492	1495
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$249
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	116.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	48
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s	5.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	486 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3