NVIDIA GeForce 620M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 620M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce 620M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 620M

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2.2x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 33 Watt

Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 33 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

Around 6% better floating-point performance: 253.4 gflops vs 240.0 gflops

Floating-point performance	253.4 gflops vs 240.0 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 620M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 620M	NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M
PassMark - G3D Mark		539
PassMark - G2D Mark		150
Geekbench - OpenCL		2396
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		5.055
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		215.004
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.635
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		10.393
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		19.903
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		967
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2766
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		967
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2766
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 620M	NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Fermi
Code name	GF117	GF108
Launch date	22 March 2012	22 March 2012
Place in performance rating	not rated	1402
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	240.0 gflops	253.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	96	96
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	585 million
CUDA cores		96
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Bus support		PCI Express 2.0
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
DirectX 11.2		12 API
OpenCL		1.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3\GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
Optimus