Quadro NVS 300M vs Quadro NVS 420

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1322not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
Power efficiency0.53no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameG98G73
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date20 January 2009 (15 years ago)24 May 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$131.43 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores813
Core clock speed550 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data450 MHz
Number of transistors210 million177 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt16 Watt
Texture fill rate4.4002.000
Floating-point processing power0.0224 TFLOPSno data
ROPs42
TMUs84

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth11.2 GB/s22.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.03.0
OpenGL3.32.1
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 January 2009 24 May 2006
Chip lithography 65 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 16 Watt

NVS 420 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 38.5% more advanced lithography process.

NVS 300M, on the other hand, has 150% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 420 and Quadro NVS 300M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro NVS 420 is a workstation card while Quadro NVS 300M is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
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