NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
2.2x lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 65 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 1334 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Launch date	2 April 2012 vs 11 August 2005
Core clock speed	810 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt vs 65 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1334 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

Around 23% higher texture fill rate: 8 GTexel / s vs 6.48 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s vs 6.48 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark		244
PassMark - G2D Mark		273

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Curie
Code name	GF119	G70
Launch date	2 April 2012	11 August 2005
Place in performance rating	not rated	624
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$449
Price now		$80
Value for money (0-100)		3.16
Technical info
Core clock speed	810 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	155.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	48
Texture fill rate	6.48 GTexel / s	8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	302 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	168 mm	226 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	10.67 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1334 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3