NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M 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 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 3x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 100 Watt
  • 3.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 150 vs 44
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3359 vs 3272
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3359 vs 3272
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 March 2012 vs 14 August 2008
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 100 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 150 vs 44
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 vs 3272
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 vs 3272

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M

  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 128 vs 96
  • Around 67% better floating-point performance: 422.4 gflops vs 253.4 gflops
  • Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 581 vs 538
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 128 vs 96
Floating-point performance 422.4 gflops vs 253.4 gflops
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 581 vs 538

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
538
581
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
150
44
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
3272
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
3272
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M
PassMark - G3D Mark 538 581
PassMark - G2D Mark 150 44
Geekbench - OpenCL 2399
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 5.055
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 215.004
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.635
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 10.393
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 19.903
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 967
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2766
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 3272
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 967
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2766
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 3272
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Tesla
Code name GF108 G92
Launch date 22 March 2012 14 August 2008
Place in performance rating 1403 1406
Type Laptop Mobile workstation

Technical info

CUDA cores 96
Floating-point performance 253.4 gflops 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 96 128
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 754 million
Core clock speed 675 MHz
Texture fill rate 43.2 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0
Interface MXM-A (3.0) MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size medium sized large

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 1 GB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory type DDR3\GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0
Memory bandwidth 64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
PowerMizer 8.0