NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition and ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD 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 479 MHz
  • 10x more texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 1.916 GTexel / s
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 256 MB
  • 2.1x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 756 MHz
Core clock speed 600 MHz vs 479 MHz
Texture fill rate 19.2 GTexel / s vs 1.916 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size 1536 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 756 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD

  • 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 X2300 HD

Name NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD
PassMark - G3D Mark 49
PassMark - G2D Mark 244

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD

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 709
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 479 MHz
Floating-point performance 368.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 128
Texture fill rate 19.2 GTexel / s 1.916 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 171 Watt
Transistor count 681 million 107 million

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 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 76.8 GB / s 3.024 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 32 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 756 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 DDR2