NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M and ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 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 1600M

ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 240 MHz
8x more pipelines: 32 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 150 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 64 MB
4x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 400 MHz
43.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 131 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2007 vs 1 September 2002
Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 240 MHz
Pipelines	32 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	131 vs 3

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

96x more texture fill rate: 960 MTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 111 vs 109

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	960 MTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	111 vs 109

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

131

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

109

111

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
PassMark - G3D Mark	131	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	109	111

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 7
Code name	G84	M9
Launch date	1 June 2007	1 September 2002
Launch price (MSRP)	$149.90
Place in performance rating	1308	1310
Price now	$149.90
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	1.87
Technical info
Core clock speed	625 MHz	240 MHz
Floating-point performance	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	32	4
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s	960 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	289 million	36 million
Boost clock speed		240 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-HE	AGP 4x
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	10.0	8.1
OpenGL	3.3	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	128
Shared memory	0	0