NVIDIA GeForce 305M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 305M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 305M

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 1150 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
5.6x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 78 Watt
Around 84% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 149 vs 81

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 January 2010 vs 8 January 2008
Core clock speed	1150 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 78 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	149 vs 81

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700

6.7x more texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
7x more pipelines: 112 vs 16
7.6x better floating-point performance: 280 gflops vs 36.8 gflops
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 372 vs 151

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	112 vs 16
Floating-point performance	280 gflops vs 36.8 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	372 vs 151

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 305M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

151

372

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

149

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 305M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700
PassMark - G3D Mark	151	372
PassMark - G2D Mark	149	81
Geekbench - OpenCL	1987
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3285
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3285

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 305M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT218	G92
Launch date	10 January 2010	8 January 2008
Place in performance rating	1330	1332
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,599
Price now		$99.02
Value for money (0-100)		8.26
Technical info
Core clock speed	1150 MHz	500 MHz
CUDA cores	16
Floating-point performance	36.8 gflops	280 gflops
Gigaflops	55
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	16	112
Texture fill rate	4.2 GTexel / s	28 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	78 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	754 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	2.1	3.3
Memory
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0