NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 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.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 40% higher core clock speed: 350 MHz vs 250 MHz
4.2x more texture fill rate: 4.2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 600 MHz vs 400 MHz
15.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 124 vs 8

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 August 2004 vs 6 March 2003
Core clock speed	350 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Memory clock speed	600 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	124 vs 8

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 154 vs 152

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	154 vs 152

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

124

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

152

154

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
PassMark - G3D Mark	124	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	152	154

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rankine
Code name	NV41	NV34 A2
Launch date	9 August 2004	6 March 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$799	$69.99
Place in performance rating	1078	1079
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Price now		$69.99
Value for money (0-100)		0.12
Technical info
Core clock speed	350 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	4.2 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	55 Watt
Transistor count	222 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0a
OpenGL	2.1	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	600 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR