NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 38% higher core clock speed: 620 MHz vs 450 MHz
22.1x more texture fill rate: 39.7 billion / sec vs 1.8 GTexel / s
96x more pipelines: 384 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 64 MB
2.1x more memory clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 700 MHz
46.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2074 vs 45
Around 75% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 349 vs 199

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 June 2011 vs 1 September 2006
Core clock speed	620 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	39.7 billion / sec vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2074 vs 45
PassMark - G2D Mark	349 vs 199

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2074

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

349

199

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200
PassMark - G3D Mark	2074	45
PassMark - G2D Mark	349	199
Geekbench - OpenCL	6389
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	24.415
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	690.98
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.83
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	29.702
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	67.215
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2664
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3626
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3318
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2664
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3626
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3318

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Curie
Code name	GF114	G72
Launch date	28 June 2011	1 September 2006
Place in performance rating	906	908
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	620 MHz	450 MHz
CUDA cores	384
Floating-point performance	952.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	384	4
Texture fill rate	39.7 billion / sec	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt
Transistor count	1,950 million	112 million
Boost clock speed		450 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 API	9.0c
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	96.0 GB / s	2.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	350 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	32
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI