NVIDIA NVS 5400M
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M is a workstation graphics card released on June 1, 2012, built on the Fermi architecture. It has 96 shading units, 2 GB of GDDR3 memory, a boost clock of 660 MHz and a 35 W board power rating. It scores 609 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.5, OpenCL 1.1 and CUDA compute capability 2.1.
Depth: 36 recorded fields, 1 feature, 4 PassMark workloads
Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 7 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M scores 609 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 41.9% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #1,744), measured across 642 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 183.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA NVS 5400M averages DirectX 9 16 fps, DirectX 10 2 fps, DirectX 11 6 fps and GPU Compute 597 ops/s, across 642 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA NVS 5400M states the PCIe 2.0 x16 interface, up to 2 GB of memory, a core clock of 660 MHz, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.5, first benchmarked on 2012-07-26. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Graphics processor
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M is based on the Fermi architecture and uses the GF108 GF117 graphics processor.
Shader configuration
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M has 96 shading units, 16 texture mapping units and 4 render output units.
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M 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 5400M. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA NVS 5400M.
Clock speeds
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M runs at a base clock of 660 MHz.
Memory
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M is equipped with 2 GB of GDDR3 memory.
Board and power
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M has a board power rating of 35 W and it connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.
Market
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M was released on June 1, 2012.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M supports DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.5, OpenCL 1.1 and CUDA compute capability 2.1.
Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA NVS 5400M.
Features
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M 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
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Supported: CUDA Compute capability 2.1Support 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 5400M supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M supports CUDA (Compute capability 2.1) under Compute and AI.
Naming and aliases
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA NVS 5400M (Mobile).
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA NVS 5400M have?
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M has 2 GB of GDDR3 memory.
How much power does the NVIDIA NVS 5400M use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M has a board power rating of 35 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA NVS 5400M?
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M scores 609 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 41.9% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #1,744.
What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA NVS 5400M?
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M has CUDA compute capability 2.1.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA NVS 5400M use?
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.
When was the NVIDIA NVS 5400M released?
The NVIDIA NVS 5400M was released on June 1, 2012.
Corrections to this record
After an audit, 1 empty field was filled from sources. Each change is listed with its old value, new value, rule and sources.
1 filled value
- Architecture: Fermi (was Not recorded). Rule: Architecture from chip codename. chip GF117 -> Fermi. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724).
The audit log is public: all changes for this GPU, the corrections overview and the method.