NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000 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 210S

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
Around 42% higher core clock speed: 425 MHz vs 300 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm

Launch date	22 December 2003 vs 21 January 2003
Core clock speed	425 MHz vs 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

Around 42% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 34 vs 24

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	34 vs 24
PassMark - G2D Mark	266 vs 265

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

265

266

Name	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000
PassMark - G3D Mark	24	34
PassMark - G2D Mark	265	266

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rankine
Code name	MCP51	NV30
Launch date	22 December 2003	21 January 2003
Place in performance rating	640	641
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	425 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	11 Watt
Transistor count	75 million	125 million
Texture fill rate		2.4 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	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		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		600 MHz
Memory type		DDR2