NVIDIA GRID K140Q vs ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID K140Q and ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition 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.

NVIDIA GRID K140Q

ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID K140Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 31% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 31% higher texture fill rate: 13.6 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
4.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 728 vs 151

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 June 2013 vs 10 September 2006
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	13.6 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	728 vs 151

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Around 12% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1782 MHz
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 466 vs 457

Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1782 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	466 vs 457

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID K140Q
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

728

151

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

457

466

Name	NVIDIA GRID K140Q	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	728	151
PassMark - G2D Mark	457	466

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GRID K140Q	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	R500
Code name	GK107	R580+
Launch date	28 June 2013	10 September 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$125
Place in performance rating	330	333
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	326.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	192
Texture fill rate	13.6 GTexel / s	10.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	384 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.51 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1782 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR4