FirePro A300 vs GeForce4 488 Go
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | Celsius (1999−2005) | TeraScale 3 (2010−2013) |
| GPU code name | NV18 A4 | Trinity GL |
| Market segment | Laptop | Workstation |
| Release date | 1 March 2002 (24 years ago) | 6 June 2012 (13 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 cores | 2 | 384 |
| Core clock speed | 300 MHz | 760 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 275 MHz | 905 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 29 million | 1,303 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 150 nm | 32 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | no data | 65 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 1.200 | 21.72 |
| Floating-point processing power | no data | 0.695 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 2 | 8 |
| TMUs | 4 | 24 |
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).
| Interface | AGP 8x | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| Width | no data | IGP |
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 type | DDR | System Shared |
| Maximum RAM amount | 64 MB | System Shared |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | System Shared |
| Memory clock speed | 275 MHz | System Shared |
| Memory bandwidth | 8.8 GB/s | no data |
| Shared memory | - | + |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 8.0 | 11.2 (11_0) |
| Shader Model | no data | 5.0 |
| OpenGL | 1.3 | 4.4 |
| OpenCL | N/A | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | N/A | N/A |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 1 March 2002 | 6 June 2012 |
| Chip lithography | 150 nm | 32 nm |
FirePro A300 has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 369% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between GeForce4 488 Go and FirePro A300. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that GeForce4 488 Go is a notebook graphics card while FirePro A300 is a workstation one.
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