NVIDIA Quadro NVS 50 PCI vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 55 PCI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 50 PCI and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 55 PCI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 50 PCI

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 55 PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 55 PCI

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 140 nm vs 150 nm

Manufacturing process technology	140 nm vs 150 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 50 PCI	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 55 PCI
Essentials
Architecture	Celsius	Rankine
Code name	NV18 A4	NV34 B1
Launch date	31 May 2005	31 May 2005
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	140 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	10 Watt
Transistor count	29 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	PCI
Length	168 mm	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	8.0	9.0a
OpenGL	1.3	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	1.6 GB / s	1.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	32 Bit	32 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR