NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
3x more core clock speed: 1180 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 66% higher texture fill rate: 10.6 billion / sec vs 6.4 GTexel / s
9x more pipelines: 144 vs 16
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 256 MB
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 1100 MHz
7.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 811 vs 115

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 September 2010 vs 3 March 2006
Core clock speed	1180 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	10.6 billion / sec vs 6.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	144 vs 16
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	811 vs 115

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800

Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 209 vs 203

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	209 vs 203

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

811

115

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

203

209

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800
PassMark - G3D Mark	811	115
PassMark - G2D Mark	203	209
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 7800
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Curie
Code name	GF106	G70
Launch date	3 September 2010	3 March 2006
Place in performance rating	867	869
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1180 MHz	400 MHz
CUDA cores	144
Floating-point performance	339.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	144	16
Texture fill rate	10.6 billion / sec	6.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	302 million
Boost clock speed		400 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
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	35.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	550 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	1100 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	256
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI