ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000 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.

ATI Mobility Radeon X2300

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X2300

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 60% higher core clock speed: 479 MHz vs 300 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
Around 31% higher memory clock speed: 784 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 41% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 48 vs 34

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2007 vs 21 January 2003
Core clock speed	479 MHz vs 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Memory clock speed	784 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	48 vs 34

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

Around 25% higher texture fill rate: 2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.916 GTexel / s
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 266 vs 263

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.916 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	266 vs 263

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon X2300
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

263

266

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon X2300	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000
PassMark - G3D Mark	48	34
PassMark - G2D Mark	263	266

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon X2300	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000
Essentials
Architecture	R500	Rankine
Code name	M64	NV30
Launch date	1 March 2007	21 January 2003
Place in performance rating	643	640
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	480 MHz
Core clock speed	479 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1.916 GTexel / s	2.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count	107 million	125 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	7.14 GB / s	9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	400 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	784 MHz	600 MHz
Memory type	128	DDR2
Shared memory	no