NVIDIA Quadro FX 330 vs ATI Mobility FireGL V3100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 330 and ATI Mobility FireGL V3100 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 330

ATI Mobility FireGL V3100

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL V3100

Around 40% higher core clock speed: 350 MHz vs 250 MHz
Around 40% higher texture fill rate: 1.4 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 150 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB

Core clock speed	350 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.4 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 330	ATI Mobility FireGL V3100
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rage 9
Code name	NV37	M22
Launch date	28 June 2004	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	110 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	1.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	21 Watt
Transistor count	45 million	107 million
Boost clock speed		350 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0a	9.0b
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	128
Shared memory		0
Technologies
PCIe