NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M and NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 2.6x more core clock speed: 1180 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • Around 96% higher texture fill rate: 10.6 billion / sec vs 5.4 GTexel / s
  • 12x more pipelines: 144 vs 12
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
  • 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 89 Watt
  • 12x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 4% higher memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • 5.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 811 vs 138
  • Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 203 vs 198
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 September 2010 vs 24 February 2005
Core clock speed 1180 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 10.6 billion / sec vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 144 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 89 Watt
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 811 vs 138
PassMark - G2D Mark 203 vs 198

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
811
138
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
203
198
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark 811 138
PassMark - G2D Mark 203 198
Geekbench - OpenCL 12379
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3274
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3274
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Curie
Code name GF106 NV41
Launch date 3 September 2010 24 February 2005
Place in performance rating 878 881
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1180 MHz 450 MHz
CUDA cores 144
Floating-point performance 339.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 144 12
Texture fill rate 10.6 billion / sec 5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 89 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 222 million
Boost clock speed 450 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 API 9.0c
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 60.0 GB / s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 600 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 256
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI