NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M

Around 11% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 450 MHz
5x lower typical power consumption: 16 Watt vs 80 Watt
Around 6% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1320 MHz

Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 450 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	16 Watt vs 80 Watt
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 1320 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500

4.5x more texture fill rate: 9 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500

Name	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500
PassMark - G3D Mark		260
PassMark - G2D Mark		81
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		882
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		882

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Curie
Code name	G73	G71
Launch date	24 May 2006	22 May 2006
Place in performance rating	not rated	1557
Type	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,599
Price now		$129.98
Value for money (0-100)		2.07
Technical info
Boost clock speed	450 MHz
Core clock speed	500 MHz	450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	8
Texture fill rate	2 GTexel / s	9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	16 Watt	80 Watt
Transistor count	177 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		173 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	22.4 GB / s	42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	500 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	1320 MHz
Memory type	128	GDDR3
Shared memory	0