NVIDIA NVS 315 vs NVIDIA Quadro

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA NVS 315 and NVIDIA Quadro 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).

NVIDIA NVS 315

NVIDIA Quadro

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA NVS 315

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 2 month(s) later
3.9x more core clock speed: 523 MHz vs 135 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 220 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 32 MB
10.5x more memory clock speed: 1750 MHz vs 166 MHz

Launch date	10 March 2013 vs 1 January 1999
Core clock speed	523 MHz vs 135 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 220 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz vs 166 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro

129.1x more texture fill rate: 540 MTexel / s vs 4.184 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	540 MTexel / s vs 4.184 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA NVS 315
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro

Name	NVIDIA NVS 315	NVIDIA Quadro
PassMark - G3D Mark	320
PassMark - G2D Mark	180
Geekbench - OpenCL	882
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	3.025
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	79.479
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.217
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	4.705
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	6.573
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	465
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	942
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1382
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	465
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	942
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1382

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA NVS 315	NVIDIA Quadro
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Celsius
Code name	GF119	NV10 A3
Launch date	10 March 2013	1 January 1999
Launch price (MSRP)	$159
Place in performance rating	1577	not rated
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	523 MHz	135 MHz
Floating-point performance	100.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	220 nm
Pipelines	48
Texture fill rate	4.184 GTexel / s	540 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	17 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DMS-59	1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	7.0
OpenGL	4.6	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	14 GB / s	2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	166 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	SDR