NVIDIA Quadro 2000 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 2000 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, 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 Quadro 2000

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 2000

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 250 MHz
20x more texture fill rate: 20 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
6.5x more memory clock speed: 2600 MHz vs 400 MHz
474.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 949 vs 2
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 301 vs 119

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	24 December 2010 vs 31 May 2005
Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	20 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	2600 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	949 vs 2
PassMark - G2D Mark	301 vs 119

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD

6.2x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 62 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 62 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 2000
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

949

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

301

119

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 2000	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD
PassMark - G3D Mark	949	2
PassMark - G2D Mark	301	119
Geekbench - OpenCL	3902
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	10.267
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	258.26
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.885
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	13.688
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	19.02
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1600
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1682
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2668
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1600
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1682
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2668

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 2000	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Celsius
Code name	GF106	NV18 C1
Launch date	24 December 2010	31 May 2005
Launch price (MSRP)	$599
Place in performance rating	1284	1274
Price now	$87.99
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	17.65
Technical info
Core clock speed	625 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	192
Texture fill rate	20 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	62 Watt	10 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 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	178 mm	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	41.6 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2600 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR