NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI 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 7950 GT AGP

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

Around 10% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 13.2 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
2.4x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 154 Watt

Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	13.2 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 154 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI

Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 768 MB vs 512 MB

Maximum memory size	768 MB vs 512 MB

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Tesla
Code name	G71	G80
Launch date	2 April 2007	5 March 2007
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$5,999
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	90 nm
Texture fill rate	13.2 GTexel / s	12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	154 Watt
Transistor count	278 million	681 million
Floating-point performance		230.4 gflops
Pipelines		96
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex	1x 6-pin
Length		229 mm
API support
DirectX	9.0c	10.0
OpenGL	2.1	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	768 MB
Memory bandwidth	44.8 GB / s	67.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3