NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT vs NVIDIA ION LE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT and NVIDIA ION LE 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 ION LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
Around 39% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 450 MHz
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 209 vs 98
Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 120 vs 96

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 July 2008 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	209 vs 98
PassMark - G2D Mark	120 vs 96

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA ION LE

2.3x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 45 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 45 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT
GPU 2: NVIDIA ION LE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

209

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

120

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT	NVIDIA ION LE
PassMark - G3D Mark	209	98
PassMark - G2D Mark	120	96
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1901
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1901

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT	NVIDIA ION LE
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G96	ION
Launch date	29 July 2008	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1377	1378
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	65 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	282 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCI
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0