NVIDIA Quadro 500M vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 500M 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, Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 56% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 450 MHz
6.2x more texture fill rate: 11.2 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
24x more pipelines: 96 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1400 MHz
12.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 571 vs 47
Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 365 vs 274

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 February 2011 vs 1 June 2006
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	11.2 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	96 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	571 vs 47
PassMark - G2D Mark	365 vs 274

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

3.5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 35 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 35 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

365

274

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M
PassMark - G3D Mark	571	47
PassMark - G2D Mark	365	274
Geekbench - OpenCL	8743

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Curie
Code name	GF108	G72
Launch date	22 February 2011	1 June 2006
Place in performance rating	602	605
Price now	$275.14
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100)	3.18
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	96	4
Texture fill rate	11.2 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	10 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	112 million
Boost clock speed		450 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	MXM-III
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	700 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	64
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CineFX 4.0
Intellisample 4.0
PowerMizer 6.0
UltraShadow II