NVIDIA NVS 4200M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA NVS 4200M and NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS 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).

NVIDIA NVS 4200M

NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA NVS 4200M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 47% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 550 MHz
Around 47% higher texture fill rate: 6.48 GTexel / s vs 4.4 GTexel / s
6x more pipelines: 48 vs 8
6.9x better floating-point performance: 155.52 gflops vs 22.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1400 MHz
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 295 vs 129
Around 70% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 78 vs 46
Around 96% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1726 vs 882
Around 96% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1726 vs 882

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 February 2011 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	810 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	6.48 GTexel / s vs 4.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	48 vs 8
Floating-point performance	155.52 gflops vs 22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	295 vs 129
PassMark - G2D Mark	78 vs 46
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1726 vs 882
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1726 vs 882

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS

Around 92% lower typical power consumption: 13 Watt vs 25 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 Watt vs 25 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA NVS 4200M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

295

129

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1726

882

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1726

882

Name	NVIDIA NVS 4200M	NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	295	129
PassMark - G2D Mark	78	46
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	882
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1726	882

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA NVS 4200M	NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GF119	G98
Launch date	22 February 2011	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1639	1642
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	810 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	155.52 gflops	22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	48	8
Texture fill rate	6.48 GTexel / s	4.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	13 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	210 million
CUDA cores		8
Gigaflops		31
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA