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.

 

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 822
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