NVIDIA NVS 2100M vs ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA NVS 2100M and ATI Mobility FireGL 7800 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA NVS 2100M

ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA NVS 2100M

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 91% higher core clock speed: 535 MHz vs 280 MHz
8x more pipelines: 16 vs 2
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
2.5x lower typical power consumption: 11 Watt vs 27 Watt
8x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 64 MB
4x more memory clock speed: 1580 MHz vs 400 MHz
28x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 140 vs 5
Around 77% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 152 vs 86

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 29 September 2001
Core clock speed	535 MHz vs 280 MHz
Pipelines	16 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	11 Watt vs 27 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	140 vs 5
PassMark - G2D Mark	152 vs 86

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

130.8x more texture fill rate: 560 MTexel / s vs 4.28 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	560 MTexel / s vs 4.28 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA NVS 2100M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

140

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

152

Name	NVIDIA NVS 2100M	ATI Mobility FireGL 7800
PassMark - G3D Mark	140	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	152	86
Geekbench - OpenCL	2609
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1249
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1249

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA NVS 2100M	ATI Mobility FireGL 7800
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Rage 7
Code name	GT218	M7
Launch date	7 January 2010	29 September 2001
Place in performance rating	1473	1475
Type	Mobile workstation	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	535 MHz	280 MHz
Floating-point performance	39.36 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	16	2
Texture fill rate	4.28 GTexel / s	560 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	11 Watt	27 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	60 million
Boost clock speed		280 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.1	7.0
OpenGL	3.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.64 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3	64 / 128
Shared memory	0	0