ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP vs NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP and NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400 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 Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP

NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP

Around 96% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 275 MHz
3.9x more texture fill rate: 8.64 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
2x more memory clock speed: 1180 MHz vs 590 MHz

Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	8.64 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1180 MHz vs 590 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400

Name	ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP	NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400
PassMark - G3D Mark		102
PassMark - G2D Mark		223

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP	NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400
Essentials
Architecture	R400	Curie
Code name	R481	NV41
Launch date	28 February 2005	25 February 2005
Place in performance rating	not rated	780
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	540 MHz	275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	8.64 GTexel / s	2.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	67 Watt
Transistor count	160 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	MXM-III
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0c
OpenGL	2.0	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	37.8 GB / s	18.88 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1180 MHz	590 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR