NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8300

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450 and NVIDIA GeForce 8300 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 450

NVIDIA GeForce 8300

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
Around 14% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 40 Watt

Launch date	11 November 2008 vs 17 April 2007
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 40 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8300

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 480 MHz
Around 52% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 102 vs 67
Around 89% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 168 vs 89

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 480 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	102 vs 67
PassMark - G2D Mark	168 vs 89

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8300

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

102

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

168

Name	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450	NVIDIA GeForce 8300
PassMark - G3D Mark	67	102
PassMark - G2D Mark	89	168
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		329
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		329

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450	NVIDIA GeForce 8300
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G98	C78
Launch date	11 November 2008	17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$163.14
Place in performance rating	1423	1425
Price now	$168	$22.68
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	0.71	5.26
Technical info
Core clock speed	480 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 19.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	2x 8
Texture fill rate	2x 3.84 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCI
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 256 MB
Memory bandwidth	2x 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	2x 64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3