NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition 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.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 480 MHz
10x more texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 1.92 GTexel / s
32x more pipelines: 128 vs 4
12x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 128 MB
2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 800 MHz

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 480 MHz
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s vs 1.92 GTexel / s
Pipelines	128 vs 4
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 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 5600 Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300
PassMark - G3D Mark		51
PassMark - G2D Mark		211

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	R500
Code name	G80	M71
Launch date	5 March 2007	1 March 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,999
Place in performance rating	not rated	823
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	480 MHz
Floating-point performance	368.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	128	4
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s	1.92 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	171 Watt
Transistor count	681 million	107 million
Boost clock speed		480 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	312 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	400 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	128
Shared memory		no