NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M vs ATI Radeon 7200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M and ATI Radeon 7200 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 3800M

ATI Radeon 7200

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 2 month(s) later
4.7x more core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 143 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 180 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 32 MB
14x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 143 MHz
193.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 581 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 August 2008 vs 1 June 2000
Core clock speed	675 MHz vs 143 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 143 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	581 vs 3

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7200

23.1x more texture fill rate: 996 MTexel / s vs 43.2 GTexel / s
4.3x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 100 Watt
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 94 vs 44

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	996 MTexel / s vs 43.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 100 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	94 vs 44

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 7200

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

581

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M	ATI Radeon 7200
PassMark - G3D Mark	581	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	44	94
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3272
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3272

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M	ATI Radeon 7200
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 6
Code name	G92	R100
Launch date	14 August 2008	1 June 2000
Place in performance rating	1406	1409
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	675 MHz	143 MHz
Floating-point performance	422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	128
Texture fill rate	43.2 GTexel / s	996 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	754 million	30 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	AGP 4x
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	7.0
OpenGL	3.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	5.31 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	143 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
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