ATI Mobility FireGL T2e vs NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility FireGL T2e and NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Mobility FireGL T2e

NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL T2e

2x more core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 220 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
Around 36% higher memory clock speed: 450 MHz vs 332 MHz

Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 220 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Memory clock speed	450 MHz vs 332 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI

1600x more texture fill rate: 2x 880 MTexel / s billion / sec vs 1.8 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	2x 880 MTexel / s billion / sec vs 1.8 GTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility FireGL T2e	NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Celsius
Code name	M11	NV17 A3
Launch date	1 August 2004	16 July 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	450 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	220 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1.8 GTexel / s	2x 880 MTexel / s billion / sec
Transistor count	76 million	29 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		18 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x LFH60
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	PCI
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0	8.0
OpenGL	2.0	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	2x 64 MB
Memory bandwidth	7.2 GB / s	2x 5.31 GB / s
Memory bus width	260 Bit	2x 128 Bit
Memory clock speed	450 MHz	332 MHz
Memory type	128	DDR
Shared memory	0