NVIDIA Quadro FX Go540 vs ATI Mobility FireGL T2e

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX Go540 and ATI Mobility FireGL T2e 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 Go540

ATI Mobility FireGL T2e

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX Go540

Around 33% higher texture fill rate: 2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm

Texture fill rate	2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL T2e

Around 50% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX Go540	ATI Mobility FireGL T2e
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 9
Code name	NV43 A4	M11
Launch date	9 August 2004	1 August 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	300 MHz	450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	2.4 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt
Transistor count	146 million	76 million
Boost clock speed		450 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	AGP 4x
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	7.2 GB / s	7.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	260 Bit
Memory clock speed	450 MHz	450 MHz
Memory type	DDR	128
Shared memory		0