NVIDIA Quadro DCC vs ATI Radeon LE

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

NVIDIA Quadro DCC

ATI Radeon LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro DCC

Around 35% higher core clock speed: 200 MHz vs 148 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 150 nm vs 180 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 64 MB vs 32 MB

Core clock speed	200 MHz vs 148 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	64 MB vs 32 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon LE

Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 888 MTexel / s vs 800 MTexel / s
Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 296 MHz vs 230 MHz

Texture fill rate	888 MTexel / s vs 800 MTexel / s
Memory clock speed	296 MHz vs 230 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro DCC	ATI Radeon LE
Essentials
Architecture	Kelvin	Rage 6
Code name	NV20 A5	Rage 6
Launch date	14 May 2001	1 May 2001
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	200 MHz	148 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s	888 MTexel / s
Transistor count	57 million	30 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	8.0	7.0
OpenGL	1.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.68 GB / s	4.74 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	230 MHz	296 MHz
Memory type	SDR	DDR