NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M vs ATI Radeon X1900 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M and ATI Radeon X1900 GT 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 300M

ATI Radeon X1900 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M

4.7x lower typical power consumption: 16 Watt vs 75 Watt
Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	16 Watt vs 75 Watt
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1900 GT

Around 15% higher core clock speed: 575 MHz vs 500 MHz
3.5x more texture fill rate: 6.9 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s

Core clock speed	575 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	6.9 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1900 GT

Name	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M	ATI Radeon X1900 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark		146
PassMark - G2D Mark		409

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M	ATI Radeon X1900 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	R500
Code name	G73	R580
Launch date	24 May 2006	1 May 2006
Place in performance rating	not rated	388
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	450 MHz
Core clock speed	500 MHz	575 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	8
Texture fill rate	2 GTexel / s	6.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	16 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	177 million	384 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	22.4 GB / s	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	500 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	128	GDDR3
Shared memory	0