NVIDIA ION LE vs NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA ION LE and NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS 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 ION LE

NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA ION LE

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 90 nm
4.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 98 vs 23

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 June 2008 vs 18 January 2006
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	98 vs 23

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 98 vs 96

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	98 vs 96

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA ION LE
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA ION LE	NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	98	23
PassMark - G2D Mark	96	98

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA ION LE	NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	ION	G72
Launch date	3 June 2008	18 January 2006
Place in performance rating	1378	1381
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt
Transistor count	282 million	112 million
Texture fill rate		1.8 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		5.34 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		668 MHz
Memory type		DDR2