NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 vs ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 and ATI Mobility FireGL 7800 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 96% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 280 MHz
8x more pipelines: 2x 8 vs 2
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 150 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2x 256 MB vs 64 MB
3.5x more memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 400 MHz
20.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 103 vs 5
Around 66% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 143 vs 86

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	20 January 2009 vs 29 September 2001
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 280 MHz
Pipelines	2x 8 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	2x 256 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	103 vs 5
PassMark - G2D Mark	143 vs 86

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

23x more texture fill rate: 560 MTexel / s vs 2x 4.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Around 48% lower typical power consumption: 27 Watt vs 40 Watt

Texture fill rate	560 MTexel / s vs 2x 4.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	27 Watt vs 40 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
GPU 2: ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

103

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

143

Name	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420	ATI Mobility FireGL 7800
PassMark - G3D Mark	103	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	143	86
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	658
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	658

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420	ATI Mobility FireGL 7800
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 7
Code name	G98	M7
Launch date	20 January 2009	29 September 2001
Launch price (MSRP)	$131.43
Place in performance rating	1453	1455
Price now	$80.99
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100)	1.61
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	280 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	2x 8	2
Texture fill rate	2x 4.4 GTexel / s billion / sec	560 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt	27 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	60 million
Boost clock speed		280 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.0	7.0
OpenGL	3.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 256 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	2x 11.2 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	2x 64 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	64 / 128
Shared memory		0