NVIDIA Quadro 5010M vs ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 5010M and ATI Radeon X1600 PRO 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.

NVIDIA Quadro 5010M

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 5010M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
10.8x more texture fill rate: 21.6 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
3.3x more memory clock speed: 2600 MHz vs 780 MHz
17.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1691 vs 99
Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 297 vs 273

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 February 2011 vs 1 October 2007
Texture fill rate	21.6 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	2600 MHz vs 780 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1691 vs 99
PassMark - G2D Mark	297 vs 273

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

Around 11% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 450 MHz
2.4x lower typical power consumption: 41 Watt vs 100 Watt

Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 450 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	41 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 5010M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1691

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

297

273

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 5010M	ATI Radeon X1600 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	1691	99
PassMark - G2D Mark	297	273
Geekbench - OpenCL	16261

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 5010M	ATI Radeon X1600 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	R500
Code name	GF110	RV530
Launch date	22 February 2011	1 October 2007
Place in performance rating	605	606
Price now	$235.95
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	10.17
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	21.6 GTexel / s	2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	41 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	157 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	83.2 GB / s	12.48 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2600 MHz	780 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5 ECC	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
ECC (Error Correcting Code)