NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1000 vs NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1000 and NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 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 Go1000

NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1000

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm

Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300

Around 10% higher core clock speed: 325 MHz vs 295 MHz
Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 1.3 GTexel / s vs 1.18 GTexel / s
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 650 MHz vs 570 MHz

Core clock speed	325 MHz vs 295 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.3 GTexel / s vs 1.18 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	650 MHz vs 570 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1000	NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300
PassMark - G3D Mark		6
PassMark - G2D Mark		197

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1000	NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rankine
Code name	NV36 A1	NV37
Launch date	25 February 2004	17 February 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	900
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	295 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.18 GTexel / s	1.3 GTexel / s
Transistor count	82 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0a	9.0a
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	9.12 GB / s	10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	570 MHz	650 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR