NVIDIA GeForce 305M vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 305M and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 305M

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 1150 MHz vs 550 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
2.9x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 40 Watt
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 151 vs 70

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 January 2010 vs 20 January 2009
Core clock speed	1150 MHz vs 550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 40 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	151 vs 70

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

5.8x more texture fill rate: 2x 4.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 4.2 GTexel / s
Around 22% better floating-point performance: 2x 22.4 gflops vs 36.8 gflops
Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 186 vs 149

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	2x 4.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 4.2 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	2x 22.4 gflops vs 36.8 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	186 vs 149

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 305M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

151

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

149

186

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 305M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
PassMark - G3D Mark	151	70
PassMark - G2D Mark	149	186
Geekbench - OpenCL	1987
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		658
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		658

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 305M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT218	G98
Launch date	10 January 2010	20 January 2009
Place in performance rating	1331	1332
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$131.43
Price now		$80.99
Value for money (0-100)		1.61
Technical info
Core clock speed	1150 MHz	550 MHz
CUDA cores	16
Floating-point performance	36.8 gflops	2x 22.4 gflops
Gigaflops	55
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	16	2x 8
Texture fill rate	4.2 GTexel / s	2x 4.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI	No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	2.1	3.3
Memory
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB / s	2x 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	2x 64 Bit
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		2x 256 MB
Memory clock speed		1400 MHz
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0