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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M is a workstation graphics card released on June 1, 2006. It has 512 MB of DDR2 memory, a boost clock of 450 MHz and a 10 W board power rating. It scores 47 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1.

G72GLMWorkstation

5/10 key specs recorded · 23 facts

Depth: 28 recorded fields

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 5 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

n/a

Memory

512 MB

DDR2

Boost clock

n/a

450 MHz base

Board power

10 W

Performance

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M scores 47 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 11.2% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,558), measured across 16 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 274.

PassMark G3D Mark

Rank #2,558
Faster than 11.2% of 2,658 GPUs
16 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

As stated by PassMark

Category Workstation

Bus interface PCIe 1.0 x16

Max memory 512 MB

Core clock 450 MHz

Memory clock 700 MHz

DirectX 9.0c

OpenGL 2.1

Max TDP 10 W

First benchmarked 2009-05-28

Samples 16

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M states the PCIe 1.0 x16 interface, up to 512 MB of memory, a core clock of 450 MHz, DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1, first benchmarked on 2009-05-28. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

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Codename G72GLM

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The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M uses the G72GLM graphics processor.

Shader configuration

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Texture units (TMUs) 4

Render output units (ROPs) 2

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M 4 texture mapping units and 2 render output units.

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M.

Clock speeds

Base clock 450 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

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The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M runs at a base clock of 450 MHz.

Memory

Size 512 MB

Type DDR2

Bus width Not recorded

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The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M is equipped with 512 MB of DDR2 memory.

Board and power

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M has a board power rating of 10 W and it connects over PCIe 1.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 10 W

Total board power Not recorded

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Bus interface PCIe 1.0 x16

Market

Launched June 1, 2006

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Segment Workstation

Series Quadro

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M was released on June 1, 2006.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 47

PassMark G2D 274

Rank #2,558

Samples 16

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M supports DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1.

DirectX 9.0c (stated by PassMark)

OpenGL 2.1

Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M.