NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420 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 780M

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 94% higher core clock speed: 823 MHz vs 425 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
152.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3805 vs 25
Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 421 vs 234

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	11 May 2013 vs 11 October 2004
Core clock speed	823 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3805 vs 25
PassMark - G2D Mark	421 vs 234

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3805

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

421

234

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420
PassMark - G3D Mark	3805	25
PassMark - G2D Mark	421	234
Geekbench - OpenCL	12810
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	39.934
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	705.616
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.631
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	13.832
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	78.867
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4868
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4868
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1466

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Curie
Code name	GK104	C61
Launch date	11 May 2013	11 October 2004
Place in performance rating	756	753
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	797 MHz
Core clock speed	823 MHz	425 MHz
CUDA cores	1536
Floating-point performance	2,448 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1536
Texture fill rate	102.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	122 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million
Video outputs and ports
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support	Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support	Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support	Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0, PCI Express 2.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCI
Laptop size	large
SLI options	1
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 API	9.0c
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Standard memory configuration	GDDR5
Technologies
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Blu-Ray 3D Support
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
TXAA