GeForce FX 5100 vs Radeon HD 7690M

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	808	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.21	no data
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	Thames XT / XTX	NV34 A1
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	7 June 2011 (13 years ago)	6 March 2003 (21 year ago)
Current price	$338	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	480	no data
Core clock speed	600 MHz	200 MHz
Boost clock speed	725 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	716 million	45 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	20 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	17.40	0.8
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 7690M and GeForce FX 5100 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). 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	no data
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	AGP 8x
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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 type	GDDR5/DDR3	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600/1800 MHz	332 MHz
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB/s	2.656 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no 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 Connectors

No outputs

1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0a
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	7 June 2011	6 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	150 nm

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