NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra 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 NVS 120M

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
7.4x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 74 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 47% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 950 MHz

Launch date	1 June 2006 vs 23 October 2003
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 74 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 950 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Around 6% higher core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 1.9 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 59 vs 47

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	475 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.9 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	59 vs 47

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

274

Name	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark	47	59
PassMark - G2D Mark	274	274

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rankine
Code name	G72	NV38 A1
Launch date	1 June 2006	23 October 2003
Place in performance rating	612	615
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Technical info
Boost clock speed	450 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	475 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1.8 GTexel / s	1.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	74 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	MXM-III	AGP 8x
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0a
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB / s	30.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	700 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	950 MHz
Memory type	64	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CineFX 4.0
Intellisample 4.0
PowerMizer 6.0
UltraShadow II