NVIDIA GeForce 7000M + nForce 610M vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7000M + nForce 610M and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 7000M + nForce 610M

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7000M + nForce 610M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm

Launch date	1 February 2006 vs 12 May 2003
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Around 14% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 350 MHz
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 35 vs 13

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 350 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	35 vs 13

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7000M + nForce 610M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

188

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M + nForce 610M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900
PassMark - G2D Mark	188	188
PassMark - G3D Mark	13	35

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M + nForce 610M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rankine
Code name	MCP67M	NV35
Launch date	1 February 2006	12 May 2003
Place in performance rating	934	937
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Core clock speed	350 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Transistor count	112 million	135 million
Texture fill rate		3.2 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length		218 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0a
OpenGL	2.1	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		700 MHz
Memory type		DDR