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.

 

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
45
40
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 1190 1192
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