NVIDIA GRID M40 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID M40 and NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS 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: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GRID M40

NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID M40

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 930 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
8.1x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 668 MHz

Launch date	18 May 2016 vs 18 January 2006
Core clock speed	930 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz vs 668 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID M40
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Name	NVIDIA GRID M40	NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	28.064
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	576.664
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	18.529
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	87.629
PassMark - G2D Mark		98
PassMark - G3D Mark		23

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GRID M40	NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Curie
Code name	GM107	G72
Launch date	18 May 2016	18 January 2006
Place in performance rating	1418	1416
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	930 MHz	450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	112 million
Texture fill rate		1.8 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz	668 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		5.34 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory type		DDR2