NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M vs ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M and ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 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 9800 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 5% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 380 MHz
Around 5% higher texture fill rate: 3.2 GTexel / s vs 3.04 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 150 nm
2.8x lower typical power consumption: 17 Watt vs 47 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 76% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 680 MHz
Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 87 vs 66
Around 76% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 308 vs 175

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 May 2007 vs 1 October 2003
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 380 MHz
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s vs 3.04 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 150 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	17 Watt vs 47 Watt
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 680 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	87 vs 66
PassMark - G2D Mark	308 vs 175

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

308

175

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M	ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	87	66
PassMark - G2D Mark	308	175
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1027
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1027

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M	ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 9
Code name	G86	R360
Launch date	9 May 2007	1 October 2003
Place in performance rating	1010	1011
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	380 MHz
Floating-point performance	25.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s	3.04 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	17 Watt	47 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	117 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		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s	21.76 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	680 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
PowerMizer 7.0