NVIDIA Quadro VX 200 vs ATI Mobility FireGL V5700

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro VX 200 and ATI Mobility FireGL V5700 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro VX 200

ATI Mobility FireGL V5700

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro VX 200

5.3x more texture fill rate: 25.2 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Around 75% better floating-point performance: 252 gflops vs 144 gflops
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Texture fill rate	25.2 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	252 gflops vs 144 gflops
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL V5700

Around 33% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 7% higher pipelines: 120 vs 112
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 450 MHz
Pipelines	120 vs 112
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro VX 200
GPU 2: ATI Mobility FireGL V5700

Name	NVIDIA Quadro VX 200	ATI Mobility FireGL V5700
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2187
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2187

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro VX 200	ATI Mobility FireGL V5700
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G92	M86
Launch date	8 January 2008	7 January 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	1470
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	252 gflops	144 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	112	120
Texture fill rate	25.2 GTexel / s	4.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	754 million	378 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2 / GDDR3 / GDDR4
Shared memory		0
Technologies
PCI-E 2.0