NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400 vs ATI Mobility FireGL V5000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400 and ATI Mobility FireGL V5000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400

ATI Mobility FireGL V5000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400

2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 102 vs 82

Specifications (specs)
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	102 vs 82

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL V5000

Around 27% higher core clock speed: 350 MHz vs 275 MHz
Around 27% higher texture fill rate: 2.8 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm
Around 44% higher memory clock speed: 850 MHz vs 590 MHz

Core clock speed	350 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	2.8 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm
Memory clock speed	850 MHz vs 590 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400
GPU 2: ATI Mobility FireGL V5000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

102

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

223

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400	ATI Mobility FireGL V5000
PassMark - G3D Mark	102	82
PassMark - G2D Mark	223	223

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400	ATI Mobility FireGL V5000
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	R400
Code name	NV41	M26
Launch date	25 February 2005	3 February 2005
Place in performance rating	782	783
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	275 MHz	350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	110 nm
Texture fill rate	2.2 GTexel / s	2.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count	222 million	120 million
Boost clock speed		350 MHz
Pipelines		8
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-III	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0b
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	18.88 GB / s	13.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	350 Bit
Memory clock speed	590 MHz	850 MHz
Memory type	DDR	128
Shared memory		0
Technologies
PCIe