NVIDIA GeForce 820A vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 820A and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 820A

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 820A

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 9 month(s) later
3.1x more core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 250 MHz
12.4x more texture fill rate: 12.4 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
4.5x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 400 MHz
278x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 556 vs 2
Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 158 vs 119

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 March 2014 vs 31 May 2005
Core clock speed	775 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	12.4 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	556 vs 2
PassMark - G2D Mark	158 vs 119

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD

Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 15 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 15 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 820A
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

556

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

158

119

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 820A	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD
PassMark - G3D Mark	556	2
PassMark - G2D Mark	158	119
Geekbench - OpenCL	3003
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1705

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 820A	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Celsius
Code name	GF117	NV18 C1
Launch date	17 March 2014	31 May 2005
Place in performance rating	1284	1281
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	775 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	297.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	12.4 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	10 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	29 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DMS-59
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	8.0
OpenGL	4.6	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR