NVIDIA GeForce 800A vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 800A and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 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 GeForce 800A

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 800A

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 85% higher core clock speed: 738 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 85% higher texture fill rate: 5.904 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
2.1x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 850 MHz
6.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 477 vs 69

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 March 2014 vs 22 July 2003
Core clock speed	738 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	5.904 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 850 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	477 vs 69

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 178 vs 165

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	178 vs 165

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 800A
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

477

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

165

178

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 800A	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000
PassMark - G3D Mark	477	69
PassMark - G2D Mark	165	178

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 800A	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Rankine
Code name	GF119	NV35
Launch date	17 March 2014	22 July 2003
Place in performance rating	960	963
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$203
Price now		$166.60
Value for money (0-100)		0.53
Technical info
Core clock speed	738 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	141.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	48
Texture fill rate	5.904 GTexel / s	3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	135 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	27.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	850 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR