NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M vs NVIDIA GeForce3

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M and NVIDIA GeForce3 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

NVIDIA GeForce3

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 5 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 200 MHz
6.8x more texture fill rate: 10.8 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 150 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 64 MB
5.2x more memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 230 MHz
47.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 238 vs 5

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 August 2006 vs 27 February 2001
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 200 MHz
Texture fill rate	10.8 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 230 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	238 vs 5

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce3

Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 120 vs 111

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	120 vs 111

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce3

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

111

120

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

238

Name	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M	NVIDIA GeForce3
PassMark - G2D Mark	111	120
PassMark - G3D Mark	238	5

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M	NVIDIA GeForce3
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Kelvin
Code name	G71	NV20 A5
Launch date	21 August 2006	27 February 2001
Place in performance rating	1278	1281
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	10.8 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	278 million	57 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x VGA, 1x DB13W3
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length		165 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	8.0
OpenGL	2.1	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	19.2 GB / s	3.68 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	230 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	SDR