NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GTO vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GTO and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GTO

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 375 MHz vs 350 MHz
Around 7% higher texture fill rate: 4.5 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 900 MHz

Core clock speed	375 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.5 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 900 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GTO
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GTO	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000
PassMark - G2D Mark		78
PassMark - G3D Mark		101

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GTO	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Curie
Code name	NV40 A1	NV40 A1
Launch date	14 April 2004	1 April 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	1482
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,199
Technical info
Core clock speed	350 MHz	375 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	4.2 GTexel / s	4.5 GTexel / s
Transistor count	222 million	222 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		142 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	2x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3