NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 18% higher core clock speed: 530 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • Around 18% higher texture fill rate: 2.12 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 130 nm
  • 5.9x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 59 Watt
  • Around 65% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 70 vs 41
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 August 2008 vs 23 October 2003
Core clock speed 530 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 2.12 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 59 Watt
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz vs 850 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 70 vs 41

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

  • 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 5900 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
70
41
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
168
170
Name NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark 70 41
PassMark - G2D Mark 168 170

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Rankine
Code name G98 NV35
Launch date 15 August 2008 23 October 2003
Place in performance rating 1007 1010
Type Mobile workstation Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $499

Technical info

Core clock speed 530 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 8
Texture fill rate 2.12 GTexel / s 1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt 59 Watt
Transistor count 210 million 135 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
Length 218 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x Molex

API support

DirectX 10.0 9.0a
OpenGL 3.3 1.5 (2.1)

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 11.2 GB / s 27.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz 850 MHz
Memory type GDDR2, GDDR3 DDR
Shared memory 0