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).

NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M

ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum

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

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	988	991
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