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.

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 5100M

ATI Radeon HD 4855

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