NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 + nForce Go 430 vs NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL

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

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 + nForce Go 430

NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL

Differences

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

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 42% higher core clock speed: 425 MHz vs 300 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 150 nm
3.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 18 vs 5

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2006 vs 12 November 2002
Core clock speed	425 MHz vs 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	18 vs 5

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 + nForce Go 430
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

181

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 + nForce Go 430	NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL
PassMark - G2D Mark	181	181
PassMark - G3D Mark	18	5

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 + nForce Go 430	NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Kelvin
Code name	C51M	NV28 A2
Launch date	1 February 2006	12 November 2002
Place in performance rating	962	964
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	425 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	150 nm
Transistor count	75 million	36 million
Texture fill rate		2.4 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		None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	8.1
OpenGL	2.1	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		650 MHz
Memory type		DDR