ATI Rage Mobility-M1 vs NVIDIA Quadro

Comparative analysis of ATI Rage Mobility-M1 and NVIDIA Quadro videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Rage Mobility-M1

NVIDIA Quadro

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Rage Mobility-M1

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later

Launch date	1 February 1999 vs 1 January 1999

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro

Around 63% higher core clock speed: 135 MHz vs 83 MHz
3x more texture fill rate: 540 MTexel / s vs 180.0 MTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 220 nm vs 250 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 32 MB vs 8 MB
Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 166 MHz vs 125 MHz

Core clock speed	135 MHz vs 83 MHz
Texture fill rate	540 MTexel / s vs 180.0 MTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	220 nm vs 250 nm
Maximum memory size	32 MB vs 8 MB
Memory clock speed	166 MHz vs 125 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Rage Mobility-M1	NVIDIA Quadro
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 4	Celsius
Code name	M1	NV10 A3
Launch date	1 February 1999	1 January 1999
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	83 MHz	135 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	250 nm	220 nm
Texture fill rate	180.0 MTexel / s	540 MTexel / s
Transistor count	8 million	17 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 2x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	6.0	7.0
OpenGL	1.2	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	720 MB / s	2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	125 MHz	166 MHz
Memory type	SDR	SDR