NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT and NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS 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 9700M GT

NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 39% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 450 MHz
5.6x more texture fill rate: 10 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
2.4x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 668 MHz
9.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 209 vs 23
Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 120 vs 98

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 July 2008 vs 18 January 2006
Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 668 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	209 vs 23
PassMark - G2D Mark	120 vs 98

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

209

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

120

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT	NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	209	23
PassMark - G2D Mark	120	98
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1901
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1901

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT	NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G96	G72
Launch date	29 July 2008	18 January 2006
Place in performance rating	1374	1377
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	625 MHz	450 MHz
CUDA cores	32
Floating-point performance	99.2 gflops
Gigaflops	148
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	5.34 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	668 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0