NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 vs ATI Radeon IGP 345M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 and ATI Radeon IGP 345M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 2x more core clock speed: 375 MHz vs 183 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 180 nm
  • 33.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 101 vs 3
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 April 2004 vs 5 October 2002
Core clock speed 375 MHz vs 183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm vs 180 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 101 vs 3

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon IGP 345M

  • Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 82 vs 78
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 82 vs 78

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000
GPU 2: ATI Radeon IGP 345M

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
78
82
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
101
3
Name NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 ATI Radeon IGP 345M
PassMark - G2D Mark 78 82
PassMark - G3D Mark 101 3

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 ATI Radeon IGP 345M

Essentials

Architecture Curie Rage 6
Code name NV40 A1 RS200
Launch date 1 April 2004 5 October 2002
Launch price (MSRP) $2,199
Place in performance rating 1479 1480
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 375 MHz 183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm 180 nm
Texture fill rate 4.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 142 Watt
Transistor count 222 million 30 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface AGP 8x AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors 2x Molex None

API support

DirectX 9.0c 7.0
OpenGL 2.1 1.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR3