NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M vs NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M and NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 99% higher core clock speed: 598 MHz vs 300 MHz
14x more texture fill rate: 33.5 billion / sec vs 2.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
11.9x more maximum memory size: 1526 MB vs 128 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 650 MHz
350.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1751 vs 5
Around 69% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 306 vs 181

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 March 2012 vs 12 November 2002
Core clock speed	598 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate	33.5 billion / sec vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	1526 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz vs 650 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1751 vs 5
PassMark - G2D Mark	306 vs 181

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1751

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

306

181

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M	NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL
PassMark - G3D Mark	1751	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	306	181
Geekbench - OpenCL	6467
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	15.053
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	588.645
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.72
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	35.916
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	52.899
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2731
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3627
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3346
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2731
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3627
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3346
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2062

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M	NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Kelvin
Code name	GF114	NV28 A2
Launch date	22 March 2012	12 November 2002
Place in performance rating	967	964
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	598 MHz	300 MHz
CUDA cores	336
Floating-point performance	803.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	336
Texture fill rate	33.5 billion / sec	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	1,950 million	36 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	AGP 8x
Laptop size	large
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12 API	8.1
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1526 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	72.0 GB / s	10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	192bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	650 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
SLI