Vega 10 vs Quadro NVS 5100M

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking1128not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGT2xx (2009−2012)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameN10P-NSVega 10
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)no data

Detailed specifications

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 cores484096
Core clock speed550 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data12,500 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattno data

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 sizemedium sizedno 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 typeDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed800 MHzno data
Shared memory-no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm

Vega 10 has a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 5100M and Vega 10. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro NVS 5100M is a mobile workstation card while Vega 10 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 5100M
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AMD Vega 10
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