NVIDIA Quadro4 500 Go GL vs ATI Radeon 7500 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro4 500 Go GL and ATI Radeon 7500 Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA Quadro4 500 Go GL

ATI Radeon 7500 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro4 500 Go GL

564.1x more texture fill rate: 880 MTexel / s vs 1.56 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 64 MB vs 32 MB

Texture fill rate	880 MTexel / s vs 1.56 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	64 MB vs 32 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7500 Mac Edition

Around 18% higher core clock speed: 260 MHz vs 220 MHz
Around 64% higher memory clock speed: 360 MHz vs 220 MHz

Core clock speed	260 MHz vs 220 MHz
Memory clock speed	360 MHz vs 220 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro4 500 Go GL	ATI Radeon 7500 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Celsius	Rage 7
Code name	NV17 A4	RV200
Launch date	23 April 2002	16 April 2002
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	220 MHz	260 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	880 MTexel / s	1.56 GTexel / s
Transistor count	29 million	60 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		23 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	8.0	8.1
OpenGL	1.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.52 GB / s	5.76 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	220 MHz	360 MHz
Memory type	SDR	DDR