NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 96 vs 64
  • Around 44% better floating-point performance: 253.4 gflops vs 176 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 79% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 59 Watt
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 768 MB
  • Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 540 vs 404
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 151 vs 65
  • Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3359 vs 2917
  • Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3359 vs 2917
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 March 2012 vs 30 March 2009
Pipelines 96 vs 64
Floating-point performance 253.4 gflops vs 176 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 59 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 768 MB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 540 vs 404
PassMark - G2D Mark 151 vs 65
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 vs 2917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 vs 2917

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
540
404
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
151
65
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
2917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
2917
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800
PassMark - G3D Mark 540 404
PassMark - G2D Mark 151 65
Geekbench - OpenCL 2345
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 5.052
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 215.924
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.635
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 10.464
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 19.904
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 967
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2766
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 2917
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 967
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2766
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 2917
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Tesla
Code name GF108 G94
Launch date 22 March 2012 30 March 2009
Place in performance rating 1398 1401
Type Laptop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $489
Price now $186.29
Value for money (0-100) 4.05

Technical info

CUDA cores 96
Floating-point performance 253.4 gflops 176 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 96 64
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt 59 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 505 million
Core clock speed 550 MHz
Texture fill rate 17.6 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0
Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Length 198 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
DirectX 11.2 12 API
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 768 MB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type DDR3\GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0
Memory bandwidth 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus