NVIDIA Quadro4 580 XGL vs NVIDIA GeForce4 460 Go

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro4 580 XGL and NVIDIA GeForce4 460 Go 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 580 XGL

NVIDIA GeForce4 460 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro4 580 XGL

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 300 MHz vs 250 MHz
Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 1.2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Core clock speed	300 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 460 Go

Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 500 MHz vs 400 MHz

Memory clock speed	500 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro4 580 XGL	NVIDIA GeForce4 460 Go
Essentials
Architecture	Celsius	Celsius
Code name	NV18 A4	NV17 A5
Launch date	12 November 2002	14 October 2002
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	300 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.2 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Transistor count	29 million	29 million
Boost clock speed		250 MHz
Pipelines		2
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	8.0	8.0
OpenGL	1.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	250 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	DDR	32