NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCIe vs ATI Radeon X800 PRO AGP

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

ATI Radeon X800 PRO AGP

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 AGP

Around 73% higher core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 275 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 900 MHz vs 500 MHz

Core clock speed	475 MHz vs 275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Memory clock speed	900 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCIe	ATI Radeon X800 PRO AGP
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	R400
Code name	NV37	R420
Launch date	25 May 2004	1 May 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
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
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	AGP 8x
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0a	9.0b
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	900 MHz
Memory type	DDR