NVIDIA NVS 5100M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA NVS 5100M and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 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 7900 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA NVS 5100M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 22% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
Around 40% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 49 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Around 21% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1320 MHz

Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 1 May 2006
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 49 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1320 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 9 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Around 35% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 254 vs 188
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 68 vs 63

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	254 vs 188
PassMark - G2D Mark	68 vs 63

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA NVS 5100M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

188

254

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA NVS 5100M	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	188	254
PassMark - G2D Mark	63	68
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 7900 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Curie
Code name	GT216	G71
Launch date	7 January 2010	1 May 2006
Place in performance rating	1492	1495
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$259
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	116.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	48
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s	9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	49 Watt
Transistor count	486 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
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	42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1320 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3