NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 67% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 300 MHz
48x more pipelines: 96 vs 2
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 150 nm
142x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 426 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 March 2007 vs 23 June 2003
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 300 MHz
Pipelines	96 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	426 vs 3

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 128 vs 124

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	128 vs 124

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

426

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

124

128

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600	ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	426	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	124	128
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3230
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3230

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600	ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 7
Code name	G80	RS300
Launch date	5 March 2007	23 June 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,999
Place in performance rating	1217	1220
Price now	$143.51
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	5.45
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	300 MHz
Floating-point performance	230.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	96	2
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	134 Watt
Transistor count	681 million	76 million
Boost clock speed		400 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	8.1
OpenGL	3.3	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	768 MB
Memory bandwidth	67.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3
Shared memory		0