NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M vs ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M and ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 130 nm
  • 3.7x lower typical power consumption: 17 Watt vs 63 Watt
  • Around 7% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1120 MHz
  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 87 vs 81
  • Around 81% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 308 vs 170
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 9 May 2007 vs 1 March 2004
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 17 Watt vs 63 Watt
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz vs 1120 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 87 vs 81
PassMark - G2D Mark 308 vs 170

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum

  • Around 30% higher core clock speed: 520 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 2.6x more texture fill rate: 8.32 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Core clock speed 520 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate 8.32 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
87
81
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
308
170
Name NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum
PassMark - G3D Mark 87 81
PassMark - G2D Mark 308 170
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1027
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1027

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum

Essentials

Architecture Tesla R400
Code name G86 R423
Launch date 9 May 2007 1 March 2004
Place in performance rating 990 993
Type Mobile workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 400 MHz 520 MHz
Floating-point performance 25.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 16
Texture fill rate 3.2 GTexel / s 8.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 17 Watt 63 Watt
Transistor count 210 million 160 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 PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 10.0 9.0c
OpenGL 3.3 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 9.6 GB / s 35.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz 1120 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

PowerMizer 7.0