NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 SE vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 SE and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 SE

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 SE

2.3x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 45 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 45 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 375 MHz vs 350 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 9 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 666 MHz

Core clock speed	375 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 666 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 SE
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Name	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 SE	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
PassMark - G3D Mark		171
PassMark - G2D Mark		275

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 SE	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Curie
Code name	G73	G71
Launch date	18 April 2006	18 April 2006
Place in performance rating	not rated	603
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	350 MHz	375 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	90 nm
Texture fill rate	4.2 GTexel / s	9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	177 million	278 million
Boost clock speed		375 MHz
Pipelines		20
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	MXM-II
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	21.31 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	500 Bit
Memory clock speed	666 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	256
Shared memory		0