Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs GeForce FX 5100

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated200
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data54.31
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV34 A1AD107
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date6 March 2003 (21 year ago)26 February 2024 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data2048
Core clock speed200 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2025 MHz
Number of transistors45 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data35 Watt
Texture fill rate0.8129.6
Floating-point processing powerno data8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs464
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount64 MB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed166 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth2.656 GB/s128.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x VGA, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0a12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 March 2003 26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 5 nm

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile has an age advantage of 20 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5100 and RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce FX 5100 is a desktop card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100
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