NVIDIA GeForce 800A vs NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 800A and NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL 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 Quadro4 980 XGL

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 800A

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 738 MHz vs 300 MHz
2.5x more texture fill rate: 5.904 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
2.8x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 650 MHz
95.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 477 vs 5

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 March 2014 vs 12 November 2002
Core clock speed	738 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate	5.904 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 650 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	477 vs 5

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL

Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 181 vs 165

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	181 vs 165

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 800A
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

477

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

165

181

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 800A	NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL
PassMark - G3D Mark	477	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	165	181

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 800A	NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Kelvin
Code name	GF119	NV28 A2
Launch date	17 March 2014	12 November 2002
Place in performance rating	961	964
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	738 MHz	300 MHz
Floating-point performance	141.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	48
Texture fill rate	5.904 GTexel / s	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	36 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		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	8.1
OpenGL	4.6	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	650 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR