NVIDIA NVS 4200M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA NVS 4200M and NVIDIA GeForce 7100 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, 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).

NVIDIA NVS 4200M

NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA NVS 4200M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 350 MHz
4.6x more texture fill rate: 6.48 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 700 MHz
5.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 276 vs 51
9.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1726 vs 184
9.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1726 vs 184

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 February 2011 vs 8 August 2006
Core clock speed	810 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	6.48 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	276 vs 51
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1726 vs 184
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1726 vs 184

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS

Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 79 vs 77

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	79 vs 77

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA NVS 4200M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

276

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1726

184

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1726

184

Name	NVIDIA NVS 4200M	NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	276	51
PassMark - G2D Mark	77	79
Geekbench - OpenCL	1155
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	2.559
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	103.797
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	6.826
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	12.836
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1726	184
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1726	184

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA NVS 4200M	NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Curie
Code name	GF119	NV44 B2
Launch date	22 February 2011	8 August 2006
Place in performance rating	1634	1631
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	810 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	155.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	48
Texture fill rate	6.48 GTexel / s	1.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	75 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	5.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0