NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400 vs ATI FireGL V7100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400 and ATI FireGL V7100 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 Go1400

ATI FireGL V7100

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
Around 42% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 102 vs 72

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 February 2005 vs 1 December 2004
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	102 vs 72

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V7100

Around 84% higher core clock speed: 507 MHz vs 275 MHz
2.8x more texture fill rate: 6.084 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Around 76% higher memory clock speed: 1040 MHz vs 590 MHz

Core clock speed	507 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	6.084 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1040 MHz vs 590 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V7100

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

102

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

223

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400	ATI FireGL V7100
PassMark - G3D Mark	102	72
PassMark - G2D Mark	223	223

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400	ATI FireGL V7100
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	R400
Code name	NV41	R480
Launch date	25 February 2005	1 December 2004
Place in performance rating	783	785
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,099
Technical info
Core clock speed	275 MHz	507 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	2.2 GTexel / s	6.084 GTexel / s
Transistor count	222 million	160 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		91 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-III	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		211 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0b
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	18.88 GB / s	33.28 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	590 MHz	1040 MHz
Memory type	DDR	GDDR3