ATI Rage Mobility-M1 vs Quadro FX 380

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1250not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.02no data
Power efficiency0.84no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Rage 4 (1998−1999)
GPU code nameG96M1
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date30 March 2009 (15 years ago)1 February 1999 (25 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$129 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16no data
Core clock speed450 MHz83 MHz
Number of transistors314 million8 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)34 Wattno data
Texture fill rate3.6000.17
Floating-point processing power0.0352 TFLOPSno data
ROPs82
TMUs82

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 2x
Length198 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3SDR
Maximum RAM amount256 MB8 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz125 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s1 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVINo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)6.0
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.31.2
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 March 2009 1 February 1999
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 8 MB
Chip lithography 65 nm 250 nm

FX 380 has an age advantage of 10 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 284.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 380 and Rage Mobility-M1. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 380 is a workstation card while Rage Mobility-M1 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 380
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