ATI Radeon HD 4350 PCIe x1 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4350 PCIe x1 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Radeon HD 4350 PCIe x1

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4350 PCIe x1

Around 15% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 520 MHz
2.5x more pipelines: 80 vs 32
Around 44% better floating-point performance: 96 gflops vs 66.56 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 80 nm
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 42 Watt

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 520 MHz
Pipelines	80 vs 32
Floating-point performance	96 gflops vs 66.56 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 42 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition

Around 73% higher texture fill rate: 8.32 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Around 63% higher memory clock speed: 1300 MHz vs 800 MHz

Texture fill rate	8.32 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1300 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4350 PCIe x1	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	RV710	G84
Launch date	30 September 2008	27 September 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	520 MHz
Floating-point performance	96 gflops	66.56 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	80	32
Texture fill rate	4.8 GTexel / s	8.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	42 Watt
Transistor count	242 million	289 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x1	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Length		168 mm
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	20.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	1300 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3