NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 and NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 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 GeForce4 Ti 4200

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 40% higher core clock speed: 350 MHz vs 250 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 4.2 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
20.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 124 vs 6

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 August 2004 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed	350 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.2 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	124 vs 6

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200

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 GeForce4 Ti 4200

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

124

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

152

154

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400	NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200
PassMark - G3D Mark	124	6
PassMark - G2D Mark	152	154

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400	NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Kelvin
Code name	NV41	NV25 A3
Launch date	9 August 2004	6 February 2002
Launch price (MSRP)	$799
Place in performance rating	1078	1080
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	350 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	4.2 GTexel / s	2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	55 Watt
Transistor count	222 million	63 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	2x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	8.1
OpenGL	2.1	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s	4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	600 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR