ATI Radeon X550 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X550 and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X550

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 51 vs 24
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 July 2005 vs 22 December 2003
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 51 vs 24
PassMark - G2D Mark 266 vs 265

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

  • Around 6% higher core clock speed: 425 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 110 nm
Core clock speed 425 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm vs 110 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X550
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
51
24
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
266
265
Name ATI Radeon X550 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S
PassMark - G3D Mark 51 24
PassMark - G2D Mark 266 265

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon X550 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

Essentials

Architecture Rage 9 Curie
Code name RV370 MCP51
Launch date 1 July 2005 22 December 2003
Place in performance rating 637 638
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 400 MHz 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 110 nm 90 nm
Texture fill rate 1.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count 107 million 75 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 11 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCI
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 9.0 9.0c
OpenGL 2.0 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 500 MHz
Memory type DDR