NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS and NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i 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 9200M GS

NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 90 nm
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 111 vs 42
Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 55 vs 45

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 June 2008 vs 4 October 2007
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	111 vs 42
PassMark - G2D Mark	55 vs 45

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i

Around 9% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 550 MHz

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 550 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

111

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS	NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i
PassMark - G3D Mark	111	42
PassMark - G2D Mark	55	45
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	882
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	882

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS	NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G98	C73
Launch date	3 June 2008	4 October 2007
Place in performance rating	1616	1618
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	600 MHz
CUDA cores	8
Floating-point performance	22.4 gflops
Gigaflops	31
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	8
Texture fill rate	4.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA