NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 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 880M

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 22% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 80 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 1580 MHz vs 1320 MHz
2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1814 vs 882
2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1814 vs 882

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 22 May 2006
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 80 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1814 vs 882
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1814 vs 882

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500

Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 9 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 260 vs 224
Around 47% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 81 vs 55

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	260 vs 224
PassMark - G2D Mark	81 vs 55

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

224

260

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1814

882

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1814

882

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500
PassMark - G3D Mark	224	260
PassMark - G2D Mark	55	81
Geekbench - OpenCL	6543
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1814	882
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1814	882

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Curie
Code name	GT216	G71
Launch date	7 January 2010	22 May 2006
Place in performance rating	1553	1556
Type	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,599
Price now		$129.98
Value for money (0-100)		2.07
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	116.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	48
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s	9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	80 Watt
Transistor count	486 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		173 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.28 GB / s	42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz	1320 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0