NVIDIA Quadro NVS 130M vs ATI Radeon 9800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 130M and ATI Radeon 9800 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 NVS 130M

ATI Radeon 9800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 130M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 23% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 325 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 150 nm
3.7x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 37 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
2.4x more memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 580 MHz
Around 67% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 97 vs 58

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 May 2007 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 150 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 37 Watt
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 580 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	97 vs 58

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9800

Around 63% higher texture fill rate: 2.6 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 191 vs 190

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	2.6 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	191 vs 190

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 130M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

190

191

Name	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 130M	ATI Radeon 9800
PassMark - G3D Mark	97	58
PassMark - G2D Mark	190	191

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 130M	ATI Radeon 9800
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 8
Code name	G86	R350
Launch date	9 May 2007	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	909	912
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	325 MHz
Floating-point performance	12.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	8
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s	2.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	37 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	117 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB / s	18.56 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	580 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, GDDR2	DDR
Shared memory	yes
Technologies
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