NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 1249 MHz vs 480 MHz
6x more pipelines: 96 vs 2x 8
6.3x better floating-point performance: 240 gflops vs 2x 19.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 28 Watt vs 35 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 2x 256 MB
5.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 381 vs 67

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 11 November 2008
Core clock speed	1249 MHz vs 480 MHz
Pipelines	96 vs 2x 8
Floating-point performance	240 gflops vs 2x 19.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt vs 35 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 2x 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	381 vs 67

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

Around 49% higher texture fill rate: 2x 3.84 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 16 GTexel / s
Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 89 vs 69

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	2x 3.84 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 16 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	89 vs 69

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

381

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450
PassMark - G3D Mark	381	67
PassMark - G2D Mark	69	89
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3123
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3123
Geekbench - OpenCL	8210

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT215	G98
Launch date	7 January 2010	11 November 2008
Place in performance rating	1425	1428
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$163.14
Price now		$168
Value for money (0-100)		0.71
Technical info
Core clock speed	1249 MHz	480 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	240 gflops	2x 19.2 gflops
Gigaflops	360
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	96	2x 8
Texture fill rate	16 GTexel / s	2x 3.84 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	727 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	DisplayPortLVDSHDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIVGA	4x DisplayPort
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
MXM Type	MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	2.1	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2x 256 MB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s	2x 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	2x 64 Bit
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Memory clock speed		1400 MHz
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management	8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI