NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800

ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 2 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 602 MHz vs 240 MHz
48x more pipelines: 192 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 150 nm
24x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 64 MB
4x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 400 MHz
328.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 986 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	11 November 2008 vs 1 September 2002
Core clock speed	602 MHz vs 240 MHz
Pipelines	192 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	986 vs 3

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

24.9x more texture fill rate: 960 MTexel / s vs 38.5 GTexel / s
Around 73% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 111 vs 64

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	960 MTexel / s vs 38.5 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	111 vs 64

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

986

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

111

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
PassMark - G3D Mark	986	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	64	111
Geekbench - OpenCL	15302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Rage 7
Code name	GT200B	M9
Launch date	11 November 2008	1 September 2002
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,799
Place in performance rating	1312	1314
Price now	$149.99
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	8.67
Technical info
Core clock speed	602 MHz	240 MHz
Floating-point performance	462.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	192	4
Texture fill rate	38.5 GTexel / s	960 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt
Transistor count	1,400 million	36 million
Boost clock speed		240 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	8.1
OpenGL	3.3	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	128
Shared memory		0