ATI Rage XL PCI vs NVIDIA Quadro

Comparative analysis of ATI Rage XL PCI 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 XL PCI

NVIDIA Quadro

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro

Around 63% higher core clock speed: 135 MHz vs 83 MHz
6.5x more texture fill rate: 540 MTexel / s vs 83 MTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 220 nm vs 350 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 32 MB vs 8 MB
Around 98% higher memory clock speed: 166 MHz vs 84 MHz

Core clock speed	135 MHz vs 83 MHz
Texture fill rate	540 MTexel / s vs 83 MTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	220 nm vs 350 nm
Maximum memory size	32 MB vs 8 MB
Memory clock speed	166 MHz vs 84 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Rage XL PCI	NVIDIA Quadro
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 3	Celsius
Code name	Rage 3	NV10 A3
Launch date	11 January 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	350 nm	220 nm
Texture fill rate	83 MTexel / s	540 MTexel / s
Transistor count	8 million	17 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x VGA	1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	6.0	7.0
OpenGL	1.1	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	336.0 MB / s	2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width	32 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	84 MHz	166 MHz
Memory type	SDR	SDR