NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 vs ATI Mobility FireGL V3200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 and ATI Mobility FireGL V3200 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 3400

ATI Mobility FireGL V3200

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400

3.5x more texture fill rate: 5.6 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 900 MHz vs 500 MHz

Texture fill rate	5.6 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	900 MHz vs 500 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL V3200

Around 14% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 350 MHz

Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 350 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400
GPU 2: ATI Mobility FireGL V3200

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400	ATI Mobility FireGL V3200
PassMark - G3D Mark		62
PassMark - G2D Mark		238

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400	ATI Mobility FireGL V3200
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 9
Code name	NV45	M24
Launch date	28 June 2004	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	725
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	350 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	5.6 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	101 Watt
Transistor count	222 million	75 million
Boost clock speed		400 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0b
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	128
Shared memory		0
Technologies
PCIe