NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI

  • Around 4% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 480 MHz
  • 6.3x more texture fill rate: 12 GTexel / s vs 1.92 GTexel / s
  • 24x more pipelines: 96 vs 4
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 768 MB vs 128 MB
  • Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 800 MHz
Core clock speed 500 MHz vs 480 MHz
Texture fill rate 12 GTexel / s vs 1.92 GTexel / s
Pipelines 96 vs 4
Maximum memory size 768 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 90 nm
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm vs 90 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300

Name NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300
PassMark - G3D Mark 51
PassMark - G2D Mark 211

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300

Essentials

Architecture Tesla R500
Code name G80 M71
Launch date 5 March 2007 1 March 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $5,999
Place in performance rating not rated 823
Type Workstation Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 480 MHz
Floating-point performance 230.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 96 4
Texture fill rate 12 GTexel / s 1.92 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 154 Watt
Transistor count 681 million 107 million
Boost clock speed 480 MHz

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 10.0 9.0c
OpenGL 3.3 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 768 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 67.2 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 400 Bit
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 128
Shared memory no