NVIDIA NVS 5400M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated904
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for moneyno data0.05
ArchitectureRV6xx (2007−2010)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameM88 CFN13P-NS1
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date5 June 2008 (15 years old)1 June 2012 (11 years old)
Current priceno data$381
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores64096
Core clock speed580 MHz660 MHz
Number of transistors666 million585 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate9.28010.56
Floating-point performance2x 371.2 gflops253.4 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 and NVS 5400M 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 sizelargemedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16MXM

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 typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed750 MHz1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth48 GB/s28.8 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)12 (11_0)
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDAno data+

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 5 June 2008 1 June 2012
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 35 Watt

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 and NVS 5400M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 is a notebook graphics card while NVS 5400M is a mobile workstation one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2
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