NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M vs ATI Radeon 9500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M and ATI Radeon 9500 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M

ATI Radeon 9500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 45% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 275 MHz
2.9x more texture fill rate: 3.2 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 150 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 64 MB
2.2x more memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 540 MHz
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 87 vs 36
Around 78% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 308 vs 173

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 May 2007 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 540 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	87 vs 36
PassMark - G2D Mark	308 vs 173

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9500

Around 42% lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 17 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 17 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

308

173

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M	ATI Radeon 9500
PassMark - G3D Mark	87	36
PassMark - G2D Mark	308	173
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1027
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1027

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M	ATI Radeon 9500
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 8
Code name	G86	R300
Launch date	9 May 2007	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	987	989
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	275 MHz
Floating-point performance	25.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s	1.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	17 Watt	12 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	110 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s	17.28 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	540 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
PowerMizer 7.0