NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE and NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 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 FX 5700 LE

NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 25 vs 18
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 147 vs 146

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2004 vs 21 January 2003
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	25 vs 18
PassMark - G2D Mark	147 vs 146

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000

Around 60% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 250 MHz
3.2x more texture fill rate: 3.2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
2x more memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 400 MHz

Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

147

146

Name	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE	NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000
PassMark - G3D Mark	25	18
PassMark - G2D Mark	147	146

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE	NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rankine
Code name	NV36 A1	NV30
Launch date	1 March 2004	21 January 2003
Place in performance rating	1117	1119
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	3.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	82 million	125 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0a	9.0a
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR2