Radeon R3 Mobile Graphics vs Quadro4 980 XGL

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureKelvin (2001−2003)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameNV28 A2Beema
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date12 November 2002 (21 year ago)28 January 2015 (9 years ago)

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 coresno data128
Core clock speed300 MHz600 MHz
Boost clock speedno data655 MHz
Number of transistors36 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate2.4004.800
Floating-point processing powerno data0.1536 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs88

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xIGP
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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed325 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth10.4 GB/sno data

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 DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.112 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.3
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 November 2002 28 January 2015
Chip lithography 150 nm 28 nm

R3 Mobile Graphics has an age advantage of 12 years, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro4 980 XGL and Radeon R3 Mobile Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro4 980 XGL is a workstation card while Radeon R3 Mobile Graphics is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL
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AMD Radeon R3 Mobile Graphics
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