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.

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

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

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	1008	1011
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