NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI and ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI

ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI

1028.6x more texture fill rate: 2x 880 MTexel / s billion / sec vs 2.8 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	2x 880 MTexel / s billion / sec vs 2.8 GTexel / s

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Around 59% higher core clock speed: 350 MHz vs 220 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 2x 64 MB
Around 81% higher memory clock speed: 600 MHz vs 332 MHz

Core clock speed	350 MHz vs 220 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 2x 64 MB
Memory clock speed	600 MHz vs 332 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Name	NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI	ATI Mobility Radeon 9800
PassMark - G3D Mark		46
PassMark - G2D Mark		110

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI	ATI Mobility Radeon 9800
Essentials
Architecture	Celsius	R400
Code name	NV17 A3	M18
Launch date	16 July 2004	1 July 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	1315
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	220 MHz	350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	2x 880 MTexel / s billion / sec	2.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt
Transistor count	29 million	160 million
Boost clock speed		350 MHz
Pipelines		8
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x LFH60	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	8.0	9.0
OpenGL	1.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 64 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	2x 5.31 GB / s	19.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	2x 128 Bit	300 Bit
Memory clock speed	332 MHz	600 MHz
Memory type	DDR	256
Shared memory		0
Technologies
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