NVIDIA Quadro FX 700 vs ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition PCI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 700 and ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition PCI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 700

ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 700

Around 50% higher core clock speed: 275 MHz vs 183 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 180 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 32 MB
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 550 MHz vs 366 MHz

Core clock speed	275 MHz vs 183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	550 MHz vs 366 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition PCI

499.1x more texture fill rate: 549 MTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	549 MTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 700	ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition PCI
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rage 6
Code name	NV35	RV100
Launch date	17 March 2004	14 March 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	275 MHz	183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	1.1 GTexel / s	549 MTexel / s
Transistor count	135 million	30 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		23 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	PCI
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex	None
API support
DirectX	9.0a	7.0
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.8 GB / s	2.928 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	550 MHz	366 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR