NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M vs NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M and NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460 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 GeForce4 MX 460

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 33% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 300 MHz
2.7x more texture fill rate: 3.2 GTexel / s vs 1.2 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
2.7x more memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 450 MHz
21.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 87 vs 4
Around 75% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 308 vs 176

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 May 2007 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	87 vs 4
PassMark - G2D Mark	308 vs 176

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

308

176

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460
PassMark - G3D Mark	87	4
PassMark - G2D Mark	308	176
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1027
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1027

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Celsius
Code name	G86	NV17 A3
Launch date	9 May 2007	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	1010	1012
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	300 MHz
Floating-point performance	25.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s	1.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	17 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	29 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 4x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	8.0
OpenGL	3.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s	7.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	450 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
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