NVIDIA Quadro 5010M vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 5010M 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 5010M

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 5010M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
12x more texture fill rate: 21.6 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
96x more pipelines: 384 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
Around 86% higher memory clock speed: 2600 MHz vs 1400 MHz
36x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1691 vs 47
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 297 vs 274

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 February 2011 vs 1 June 2006
Texture fill rate	21.6 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	2600 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1691 vs 47
PassMark - G2D Mark	297 vs 274

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

10x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 100 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 5010M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1691

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

297

274

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 5010M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M
PassMark - G3D Mark	1691	47
PassMark - G2D Mark	297	274
Geekbench - OpenCL	16261

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 5010M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Curie
Code name	GF110	G72
Launch date	22 February 2011	1 June 2006
Place in performance rating	610	612
Price now	$235.95
Type	Mobile workstation	Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100)	10.17
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	384	4
Texture fill rate	21.6 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	10 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	112 million
Boost clock speed		450 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	MXM-III
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	83.2 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	700 Bit
Memory clock speed	2600 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5 ECC	64
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
ECC (Error Correcting Code)
CineFX 4.0
Intellisample 4.0
PowerMizer 6.0
UltraShadow II