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NVIDIA NVS 5100M

The NVIDIA NVS 5100M is a workstation graphics card released on February 22, 2011. It has 48 shading units, 1 GB of GDDR3 memory, a boost clock of 550 MHz and a 35 W board power rating. It scores 200 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.3, OpenCL 1.1 and CUDA compute capability 1.2.

GT216MWorkstation

6/10 key specs recorded · 27 facts

Depth: 33 recorded fields, 1 feature, 2 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 6 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

48cores

Memory

1 GB

GDDR3

Boost clock

n/a

550 MHz base

Board power

35 W

Performance

The NVIDIA NVS 5100M scores 200 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 24.7% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,194), measured across 268 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 62.

PassMark G3D Mark

200

Rank #2,194
Faster than 24.7% of 2,658 GPUs
268 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 8 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 14.2% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 1 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 0% of 1,602 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA NVS 5100M averages DirectX 9 8 fps and DirectX 10 1 fps, across 268 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Workstation

Bus interface PCIe 2.0 x16

Max memory 1 GB

Core clock 550 MHz

Memory clock 1600 MHz

DirectX 10.1

OpenGL 3.3

Max TDP 35 W

First benchmarked 2010-03-26

Samples 268

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA NVS 5100M states the PCIe 2.0 x16 interface, up to 1 GB of memory, a core clock of 550 MHz, DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3, first benchmarked on 2010-03-26. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Not recorded

Codename GT216M

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA NVS 5100M uses the GT216M graphics processor.

Shader configuration

Shading units 48

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 16

Render output units (ROPs) 8

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA NVS 5100M has 48 shading units, 16 texture mapping units and 8 render output units.

The NVIDIA NVS 5100M does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA NVS 5100M. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA NVS 5100M.

Clock speeds

Base clock 550 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA NVS 5100M runs at a base clock of 550 MHz.

Memory

Size 1 GB

Type GDDR3

Bus width Not recorded

Bandwidth Not recorded

The NVIDIA NVS 5100M is equipped with 1 GB of GDDR3 memory.

Board and power

The NVIDIA NVS 5100M has a board power rating of 35 W and it connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 35 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 2.0 x16

Market

Launched February 22, 2011

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Workstation

Series NVS

The NVIDIA NVS 5100M was released on February 22, 2011.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 200

PassMark G2D 62

Rank #2,194

Samples 268

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA NVS 5100M supports DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.3, OpenCL 1.1 and CUDA compute capability 1.2.

DirectX 10.1

OpenGL 3.3

OpenCL 1.1

CUDA compute capability 1.2

Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA NVS 5100M.

Features

The NVIDIA NVS 5100M has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Compute and AI

Supported: CUDA Compute capability 1.2

Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.

Not listed (2)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA NVS 5100M supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA NVS 5100M supports CUDA (Compute capability 1.2) under Compute and AI.