NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX vs NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX and NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX

NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 180 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 64 MB
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 500 MHz
462x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 462 vs 1
Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 175 vs 143

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 November 2007 vs 22 March 2001
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	462 vs 1
PassMark - G2D Mark	175 vs 143

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro

33.3x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 24 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 24 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

462

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

175

143

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX	NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro
PassMark - G3D Mark	462	1
PassMark - G2D Mark	175	143
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2485
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2485

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX	NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Celsius
Code name	G92	NV15 A4
Launch date	1 November 2007	22 March 2001
Place in performance rating	1141	1144
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	200 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt
Transistor count	754 million	25 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-HE	AGP 4x
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	7.0
OpenGL	3.3	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
Gigathread technology
HDCP-capable
HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting)
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0
SLI