NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 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

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 88% higher texture fill rate: 3.2 GTexel / s vs 1.7 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 130 nm
Around 47% lower typical power consumption: 17 Watt vs 25 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
2.4x more memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 500 MHz
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 87 vs 41
Around 78% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 308 vs 173

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 May 2007 vs 23 October 2003
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s vs 1.7 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	17 Watt vs 25 Watt
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	87 vs 41
PassMark - G2D Mark	308 vs 173

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

Around 6% higher core clock speed: 425 MHz vs 400 MHz

Core clock speed	425 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

308

173

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700
PassMark - G3D Mark	87	41
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	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rankine
Code name	G86	NV36 A1
Launch date	9 May 2007	23 October 2003
Place in performance rating	988	989
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	25.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s	1.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	17 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	82 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	9.0a
OpenGL	3.3	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
PowerMizer 7.0