NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT Dual vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT Dual and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT Dual

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT Dual

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 375 MHz
6.2x more texture fill rate: 2x 8 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 4.5 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 2x 256 MB vs 256 MB

Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 375 MHz
Texture fill rate	2x 8 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 4.5 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	2x 256 MB vs 256 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400

Around 5% higher memory clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Memory clock speed	1050 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT Dual	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Curie
Code name	G70	NV45
Launch date	11 August 2005	28 July 2005
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,399
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	375 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	2x 8 GTexel / s billion / sec	4.5 GTexel / s
Transistor count	302 million	222 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		83 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	2x 32.0 GB / s	33.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	1050 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3