NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
Around 36% higher core clock speed: 612 MHz vs 450 MHz
21.8x more texture fill rate: 39.2 billion / sec vs 1.8 GTexel / s
32x more pipelines: 128 vs 4
13.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 643 vs 47

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 May 2007 vs 1 June 2006
Core clock speed	612 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	39.2 billion / sec vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	128 vs 4
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	643 vs 47

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

17.1x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 171 Watt
Around 30% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 274 vs 252

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 171 Watt
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	274 vs 252

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

643

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

252

274

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M
PassMark - G3D Mark	643	47
PassMark - G2D Mark	252	274

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G80	G72
Launch date	2 May 2007	1 June 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$829
Place in performance rating	617	620
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	612 MHz	450 MHz
CUDA cores	612
Floating-point performance	387.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	128	4
Texture fill rate	39.2 billion / sec	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	171 Watt	10 Watt
Transistor count	681 million	112 million
Boost clock speed		450 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	MXM-III
Length	270 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	103.7 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	700 Bit
Memory clock speed	1080 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	64
Shared memory		0
Technologies
SLI
CineFX 4.0
Intellisample 4.0
PowerMizer 6.0
UltraShadow II