NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT 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.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 13% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 13% higher texture fill rate: 1.8 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 35 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 900 MHz vs 700 MHz
Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 45 vs 40

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2006 vs 12 May 2003
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.8 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 35 Watt
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	900 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	45 vs 40

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 134 vs 132

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	134 vs 132

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

132

134

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	45	40
PassMark - G2D Mark	132	134

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rankine
Code name	G72	NV35
Launch date	13 March 2006	12 May 2003
Place in performance rating	1189	1191
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	450 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1.8 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	112 million	135 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0a
OpenGL	2.1	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	350 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	64	DDR
Shared memory	no
Technologies
CineFX 4.0
Intellisample 4.0
PowerMizer 6.0
UltraShadow II