NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCIe vs ATI Radeon X800 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCIe and ATI Radeon X800 PRO 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCIe

  • 3.7x lower typical power consumption: 13 Watt vs 48 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 13 Watt vs 48 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 PRO

  • Around 73% higher core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 275 MHz
  • 5.2x more texture fill rate: 5.7 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 64 MB
  • Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 900 MHz vs 500 MHz
Core clock speed 475 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate 5.7 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 256 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 900 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCIe
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X800 PRO

Name NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCIe ATI Radeon X800 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark 65
PassMark - G2D Mark 190

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCIe ATI Radeon X800 PRO

Essentials

Architecture Rankine R400
Code name NV37 R423
Launch date 25 May 2004 1 May 2004
Place in performance rating not rated 920
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 275 MHz 475 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 150 nm 130 nm
Texture fill rate 1.1 GTexel / s 5.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 13 Watt 48 Watt
Transistor count 45 million 160 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DMS-59 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None 1x Molex

API support

DirectX 9.0a 9.0c
OpenGL 1.5 (2.1) 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 8 GB / s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 500 MHz 900 MHz
Memory type DDR GDDR3

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