NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M and ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 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.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M

ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 79% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 350 MHz
3.6x more texture fill rate: 10 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 32 vs 8
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 130 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
2.7x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 600 MHz
2.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 131 vs 46

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2007 vs 1 July 2004
Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	32 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	131 vs 46

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 110 vs 109

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	110 vs 109

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

131

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

109

110

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M	ATI Mobility Radeon 9800
PassMark - G3D Mark	131	46
PassMark - G2D Mark	109	110

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M	ATI Mobility Radeon 9800
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	R400
Code name	G84	M18
Launch date	1 June 2007	1 July 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$149.90
Place in performance rating	1308	1309
Price now	$149.90
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	1.87
Technical info
Core clock speed	625 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	32	8
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s	2.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	289 million	160 million
Boost clock speed		350 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-HE	AGP 8x
Laptop size	large	large
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	19.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	300 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	256
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
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