NVIDIA NVS 5400M: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
Summary
NVIDIA started NVS 5400M sales 1 June 2012. This is a Fermi architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 2 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 1.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 28.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM interface. Power consumption is at 35 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.62% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about NVS 5400M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 905 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Value for money | 0.05 | |
| Architecture | Fermi (2010−2014) | |
| GPU code name | N13P-NS1 | |
| Market segment | Mobile workstation | |
| Release date | 1 June 2012 (11 years old) | |
| Current price | $381 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Technical specs
NVS 5400M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of NVS 5400M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 96 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 660 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 585 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 10.56 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 253.4 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
Information on NVS 5400M's 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 size | medium sized | |
| Interface | MXM |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on NVS 5400M: 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 | DDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 28.8 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on NVS 5400M. 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 support
APIs supported by NVS 5400M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of NVS 5400M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
GeekBench 5 OpenCL
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.
Benchmark coverage: 9%
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good NVS 5400M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| Full HD | 17 |
Performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 1−2 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 1−2 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 10−11 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 0−1 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 2−3 | |
| Hitman 3 | 2−3 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 2−3 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 4−5 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 7−8 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 1−2 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 1−2 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 10−11 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 0−1 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 2−3 | |
| Hitman 3 | 2−3 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 2−3 | |
| Metro Exodus | 2−3 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 4−5 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 7−8 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 5−6 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 1−2 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 1−2 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 0−1 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 2−3 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 5−6 |
1440p
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 4−5 | |
| Hitman 3 | 4−5 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 9−10 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 0−1 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 5−6 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 3−4 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 2−3 |
4K
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 2−3 | |
| Hitman 3 | 2−3 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 7−8 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 0−1 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 0−1 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 0−1 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 3−4 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 5−6 |
Relative perfomance
Overall NVS 5400M performance compared to nearest competitors among mobile workstation video cards.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to NVS 5400M is FirePro M5800, which is slower by 15% and lower by 62 positions in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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