AMD Radeon E9171 MCM vs NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E9171 MCM and NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro 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: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon E9171 MCM

NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E9171 MCM

Videocard is newer: launch date 16 year(s) 6 month(s) later
5.6x more core clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 180 nm
64x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 64 MB
12x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 500 MHz

Launch date	3 October 2017 vs 22 March 2001
Core clock speed	1124 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 500 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro

20.5x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 39.01 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 39.01 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E9171 MCM
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro

Name	AMD Radeon E9171 MCM	NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	27.321
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	924.953
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.499
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	52.632
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	97.705
PassMark - G3D Mark		1
PassMark - G2D Mark		143

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E9171 MCM	NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Celsius
Code name	Lexa	NV15 A4
Launch date	3 October 2017	22 March 2001
Place in performance rating	1181	1178
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1219 MHz
Core clock speed	1124 MHz	200 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	512
Texture fill rate	39.01 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million	25 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	7.0
OpenGL	4.5	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR