NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 + nForce Go 430 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 + nForce Go 430 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 + nForce Go 430

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 + nForce Go 430

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 6% higher core clock speed: 425 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 181 vs 178

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2006 vs 22 July 2003
Core clock speed	425 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	181 vs 178

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

3.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 69 vs 18

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	69 vs 18

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 + nForce Go 430
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

181

178

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 + nForce Go 430	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000
PassMark - G2D Mark	181	178
PassMark - G3D Mark	18	69

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 + nForce Go 430	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rankine
Code name	C51M	NV35
Launch date	1 February 2006	22 July 2003
Place in performance rating	961	962
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$203
Price now		$166.60
Value for money (0-100)		0.53
Technical info
Core clock speed	425 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Transistor count	75 million	135 million
Texture fill rate		3.2 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0a
OpenGL	2.1	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		27.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		850 MHz
Memory type		DDR