NVIDIA Quadro 6000 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 6000 and ATI Mobility Radeon X2500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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).

NVIDIA Quadro 6000

ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 6000

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 25% higher core clock speed: 574 MHz vs 460 MHz
17.4x more texture fill rate: 32.1 GTexel / s vs 1.84 GTexel / s
37.3x more pipelines: 448 vs 12
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
24x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 256 MB
3.7x more memory clock speed: 2988 MHz vs 800 MHz
33x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2704 vs 82
Around 94% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 455 vs 235

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 December 2010 vs 1 June 2007
Core clock speed	574 MHz vs 460 MHz
Texture fill rate	32.1 GTexel / s vs 1.84 GTexel / s
Pipelines	448 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	2988 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2704 vs 82
PassMark - G2D Mark	455 vs 235

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 6000
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2704

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

455

235

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 6000	ATI Mobility Radeon X2500
PassMark - G3D Mark	2704	82
PassMark - G2D Mark	455	235
Geekbench - OpenCL	9850
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	24.377
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	793.755
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.66
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	34.891
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	90.839
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3501
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3689
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3501
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3689
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3335

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 6000	ATI Mobility Radeon X2500
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	R500
Code name	GF100	M66
Launch date	10 December 2010	1 June 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,399
Place in performance rating	769	772
Price now	$332.21
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	12.86
Technical info
Core clock speed	574 MHz	460 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,027.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	448	12
Texture fill rate	32.1 GTexel / s	1.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	204 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	157 million
Boost clock speed		460 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	248 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	143.4 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	400 Bit
Memory clock speed	2988 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	64 / 128
Shared memory		yes
Technologies
Powerplay 6.0