NVIDIA GeForce4 488 Go vs NVIDIA Quadro4 700 XGL

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce4 488 Go and NVIDIA Quadro4 700 XGL videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce4 488 Go

NVIDIA Quadro4 700 XGL

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 488 Go

Around 9% higher core clock speed: 300 MHz vs 275 MHz
Around 22% higher memory clock speed: 550 MHz vs 450 MHz

Core clock speed	300 MHz vs 275 MHz
Memory clock speed	550 MHz vs 450 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro4 700 XGL

Around 83% higher texture fill rate: 2.2 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	2.2 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce4 488 Go	NVIDIA Quadro4 700 XGL
Essentials
Architecture	Celsius	Kelvin
Code name	NV18 A4	NV25 A2
Launch date	1 March 2002	19 February 2002
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	275 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	2
Texture fill rate	1.2 GTexel / s	2.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	29 million	63 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	8.0	8.1
OpenGL	1.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.8 GB / s	7.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	275 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	550 MHz	450 MHz
Memory type	32	DDR