NVIDIA GeForce 7000M vs ATI FireGL V3200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7000M and ATI FireGL V3200 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

ATI FireGL V3200

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 239 vs 236

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2006 vs 1 September 2004
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	239 vs 236

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V3200

500x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 1 MHz
6.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 85 vs 13

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 1 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	85 vs 13

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V3200

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

239

236

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M	ATI FireGL V3200
PassMark - G3D Mark	13	85
PassMark - G2D Mark	239	236

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M	ATI FireGL V3200
Essentials
Code name	C67	RV380
Launch date	1 February 2006	1 September 2004
Place in performance rating	738	740
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Architecture		Rage 9
Technical info
Boost clock speed	350 MHz
Core clock speed	1 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	2
Texture fill rate		2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		46 Watt
Transistor count		75 million
API support
DirectX	shared Memory	9.0b
OpenGL		2.0
Memory
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		700 MHz
Memory type		DDR
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None