NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 630

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 69% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 480 MHz
  • 6x more pipelines: 96 vs 2x 8
  • 8.1x better floating-point performance: 311.0 gflops vs 2x 19.2 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 2x 256 MB
  • Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1400 MHz
  • 10.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 681 vs 67
  • 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 225 vs 89
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 May 2012 vs 11 November 2008
Core clock speed 810 MHz vs 480 MHz
Pipelines 96 vs 2x 8
Floating-point performance 311.0 gflops vs 2x 19.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 2x 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 681 vs 67
PassMark - G2D Mark 225 vs 89

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

  • Around 84% higher texture fill rate: 2x 3.84 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 12.96 GTexel / s
  • Around 86% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 65 Watt
Texture fill rate 2x 3.84 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 12.96 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
681
67
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
225
89
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450
PassMark - G3D Mark 681 67
PassMark - G2D Mark 225 89
Geekbench - OpenCL 2473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 6.498
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 140.06
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.502
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 9.613
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 12.49
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1151
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1853
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2073
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1151
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1853
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2073
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 170

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Tesla
Code name GF108 G98
Launch date 15 May 2012 11 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $99.99 $163.14
Place in performance rating 1440 1442
Price now $99.21 $168
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 8.89 0.71

Technical info

Core clock speed 810 MHz 480 MHz
Floating-point performance 311.0 gflops 2x 19.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 96 2x 8
Texture fill rate 12.96 GTexel / s 2x 3.84 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 4x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 145 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2x 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s 2x 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 2x 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3