NVIDIA Quadro 4000 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9700

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 4000 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA Quadro 4000

ATI Mobility Radeon 9700

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 4000

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 6% higher core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 450 MHz
8.4x more texture fill rate: 15.2 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
64x more pipelines: 256 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
5.1x more memory clock speed: 2808 MHz vs 550 MHz
54.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1479 vs 27
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 379 vs 158

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 November 2010 vs 1 June 2004
Core clock speed	475 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.2 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	256 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	2808 MHz vs 550 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1479 vs 27
PassMark - G2D Mark	379 vs 158

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 4000
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9700

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1479

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

379

158

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 4000	ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
PassMark - G3D Mark	1479	27
PassMark - G2D Mark	379	158
Geekbench - OpenCL	5044
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	13.345
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	306.122
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.552
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	20.453
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	39.651
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2079
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3472
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2079
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3472
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 4000	ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Rage 9
Code name	GF100	M11
Launch date	2 November 2010	1 June 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,199
Place in performance rating	1068	1071
Price now	$141.66
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	17.08
Technical info
Core clock speed	475 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	486.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	256	4
Texture fill rate	15.2 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	142 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	76 million
Boost clock speed		450 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	89.9 GB / s	8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	275 Bit
Memory clock speed	2808 MHz	550 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	128 / 64
Shared memory		0