NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 LE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 LE videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 530 MHz vs 250 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 2.12 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 150 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
4.2x more memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 332 MHz
10x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 70 vs 7

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 August 2008 vs 17 March 2003
Core clock speed	530 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	2.12 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 332 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	70 vs 7

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 LE

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 170 vs 168

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	170 vs 168

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 LE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

168

170

Name	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 LE
PassMark - G3D Mark	70	7
PassMark - G2D Mark	168	170

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 LE
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rankine
Code name	G98	NV34 A2
Launch date	15 August 2008	17 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1009	1012
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	530 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	8
Texture fill rate	2.12 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-I	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0a
OpenGL	3.3	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB / s	2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	332 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0