ATI FirePro V3800 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800

Comparative analysis of ATI FirePro V3800 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V3800

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
• Around 18% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 550 MHz
• 6.3x more pipelines: 400 vs 64
• 3x better floating-point performance: 520.0 gflops vs 176 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
• Around 37% lower typical power consumption: 43 Watt vs 59 Watt
• Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
• 2.8x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 179 vs 65
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2958 vs 2917
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2958 vs 2917

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800

• Around 35% higher texture fill rate: 17.6 GTexel / s vs 13 GTexel / s
• Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 768 MB vs 512 MB
• Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 404 vs 321

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI FirePro V3800
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	321 404
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	179 65
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2958 2917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2958 2917

Compare specifications (specs)