NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP 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.

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285

ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 150 nm
14x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 42 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	6 June 2006 vs 23 June 2003
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	42 vs 3

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

Around 9% higher core clock speed: 300 MHz vs 275 MHz
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 128 vs 127

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	300 MHz vs 275 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	128 vs 127

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

127

128

Name	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285	ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	42	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	127	128

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285	ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 7
Code name	NV44 A2	RS300
Launch date	6 June 2006	23 June 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$27.99
Place in performance rating	1218	1220
Price now	$61.99
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	0.72
Technical info
Core clock speed	275 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt
Transistor count	75 million	76 million
Boost clock speed		400 MHz
Pipelines		2
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DMS-59	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	8.1
OpenGL	2.1	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz
Memory type	DDR
Shared memory		0