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.

ATI Radeon X550

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

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

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	632	640
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