NVIDIA NVS 5100M vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM NVS 5100M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA NVS 5100M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 45W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

592 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 5100M

0.116 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M +782%

1.024 TFLOPS

NVS 5100M

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Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Apr 2012

NVS Mobile

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

6

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

48

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

116.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT216

GPU Name

Heathrow

N10P-NS

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.486 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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