Quadro NVS 510M vs GeForce 620M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1197
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data1.23
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameGF117G71
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date22 March 2012 (12 years ago)21 August 2006 (18 years ago)

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 cores96no data
Core clock speed625 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors585 million278 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate10.0010.80
Floating-point processing power0.24 TFLOPSno data
ROPs816
TMUs1624

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16

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 typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz600 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s19.2 GB/s

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.

DirectX12 (11_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model5.13.0
OpenGL4.62.1
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 2012 21 August 2006
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 35 Watt

GeForce 620M has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 221.4% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 620M and Quadro NVS 510M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 620M is a notebook graphics card while Quadro NVS 510M is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 620M
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