NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M vs ATI Mobility FireGL V5700

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRV6xx (2007−2010)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameM86-GLG98
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date7 January 2008 (16 years old)15 August 2008 (15 years old)
Current priceno data$105

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1208
Core clock speed600 MHz580 MHz
Number of transistors378 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data12 Watt
Texture fill rate4.8004.640
Floating-point performance144 gflops23.2 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Mobility FireGL V5700 and Quadro NVS 160M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16MXM-I

Memory

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 typeDDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4GDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s11.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDAno data1.1

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 7 January 2008 15 August 2008
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 256 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 65 nm

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ATI Mobility FireGL V5700
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