ATI FirePro M7740 vs NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go

Comparative analysis of ATI FirePro M7740 and NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI FirePro M7740

NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro M7740

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 6 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB

Launch date	4 August 2009 vs 1 February 2002
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 64 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go

30x lower typical power consumption: 2 Watt vs 60 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	2 Watt vs 60 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI FirePro M7740
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go

Name	ATI FirePro M7740	NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go
PassMark - G3D Mark	665
PassMark - G2D Mark	415
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3309
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3309

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI FirePro M7740	NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale
Code name	M97
Launch date	4 August 2009	1 February 2002
Place in performance rating	616	not rated
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	832.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	20.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt	2 Watt
Transistor count	826 million	27 Million
Boost clock speed		250 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	DDR
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	54.1 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3384 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	32 / 64 / 128
Shared memory	0	0