NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL 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 Ultra DDL

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 375 MHz
Around 42% higher texture fill rate: 6.4 GTexel / s vs 4.5 GTexel / s
Around 42% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 142 Watt
Around 10% higher memory clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 375 MHz
Texture fill rate	6.4 GTexel / s vs 4.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 142 Watt
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

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

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Curie
Code name	NV40 A1	NV40 A1
Launch date	14 April 2004	1 April 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$599	$2,199
Place in performance rating	not rated	1482
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	375 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	6.4 GTexel / s	4.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	142 Watt
Transistor count	222 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP Pro 8x	AGP 8x
Length	305 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	35.2 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3