NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M vs ATI Radeon X850 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M and ATI Radeon X850 XT 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M

ATI Radeon X850 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 30% higher texture fill rate: 10.8 GTexel / s vs 8.32 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
Around 97% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 69 Watt
Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1080 MHz
3.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 254 vs 81

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 August 2006 vs 1 December 2004
Texture fill rate	10.8 GTexel / s vs 8.32 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 69 Watt
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	254 vs 81

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 XT

Around 16% higher core clock speed: 520 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 326 vs 317

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	520 MHz vs 450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	326 vs 317

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X850 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

317

326

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

254

Name	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M	ATI Radeon X850 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark	317	326
PassMark - G3D Mark	254	81

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M	ATI Radeon X850 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	R400
Code name	G71	R480
Launch date	21 August 2006	1 December 2004
Place in performance rating	498	494
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	520 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	10.8 GTexel / s	8.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	69 Watt
Transistor count	278 million	160 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
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0b
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	19.2 GB / s	34.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	1080 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3