ATI Radeon X800 PRO AGP vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X800 PRO AGP and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI 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 X800 PRO AGP

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 PRO AGP

Around 12% higher core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 425 MHz
3.1x lower typical power consumption: 48 Watt vs 150 Watt

Core clock speed	475 MHz vs 425 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	48 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 900 MHz

Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 900 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X800 PRO AGP	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI
Essentials
Architecture	R400	Curie
Code name	R420	NV41
Launch date	1 May 2004	19 April 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$4,999
Technical info
Core clock speed	475 MHz	425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	48 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	160 million	222 million
Texture fill rate		5.1 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0c
OpenGL	2.0	2.1
Memory
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	1000 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory type		GDDR3