NVIDIA Quadro NVS 5100M vs ATI Radeon HD 4855

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 5100M and ATI Radeon HD 4855 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 5100M

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 3.1x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 110 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 110 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4855

  • Around 5% higher core clock speed: 575 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • 13.3x more pipelines: 640 vs 48
  • 4.5x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 800 MHz
Core clock speed 575 MHz vs 550 MHz
Pipelines 640 vs 48
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 5100M ATI Radeon HD 4855

Essentials

Architecture GT2xx TeraScale
Code name N10P-NS RV770
Launch date 7 January 2010 3 January 2010
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Mobile workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 550 MHz 575 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 48 640
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 110 Watt
Floating-point performance 736.0 gflops
Texture fill rate 18.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count 956 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Laptop size medium sized
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 220 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 10.1 10.1
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 3600 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Shared memory 0
Memory bandwidth 115.2 GB / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

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