NVS 5100M: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
NVS 5100M provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.48% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
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Summary
NVIDIA started NVS 5100M sales 7 January 2010. This is a Tesla 2.0 architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 25.6 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-A (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 35 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about NVS 5100M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1320 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 1.06 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013) | |
| GPU code name | GT216 | |
| Market segment | Mobile workstation | |
| Release date | 7 January 2010 (16 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
NVS 5100M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of NVS 5100M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 48 | of 57344 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Core clock speed | 550 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 486 million | of 670,000 million (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 2 nm (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | of 3600 Watt (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Texture fill rate | 8.800 | of 4,062.5 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.1162 TFLOPS | of 260 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 16 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L2 Cache | 64 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of NVS 5100M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | MXM-A (3.0) |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on NVS 5100M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 432 GB (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 32768 Bit (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Memory clock speed | 800 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 25.6 GB/s | of 3,277 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on NVS 5100M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by NVS 5100M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_1) | |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090 D) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.2 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of NVS 5100M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to NVS 5100M is Mobility FireGL V5700, which is slower by 29% and lower by 59 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to NVS 5100M:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with NVS 5100M according to our statistics.
