NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 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 Quadro FX 550

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
Around 25% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 360 MHz
3.8x more texture fill rate: 10.8 GTexel / s vs 2.88 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 110 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 800 MHz
4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 254 vs 64

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 August 2006 vs 20 April 2006
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 360 MHz
Texture fill rate	10.8 GTexel / s vs 2.88 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	254 vs 64

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 35 Watt
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 325 vs 317

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 35 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	325 vs 317

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

317

325

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

254

Name	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
PassMark - G2D Mark	317	325
PassMark - G3D Mark	254	64

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Curie
Code name	G71	NV43 A2
Launch date	21 August 2006	20 April 2006
Place in performance rating	498	499
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	360 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	110 nm
Texture fill rate	10.8 GTexel / s	2.88 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	278 million	146 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
Length		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	19.2 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3