NVIDIA Quadro 3000M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 3000M and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 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 Quadro 3000M

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 3000M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2x more texture fill rate: 18 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
Around 89% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1320 MHz
3.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 998 vs 254
4.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 316 vs 68

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 February 2011 vs 1 May 2006
Texture fill rate	18 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	998 vs 254
PassMark - G2D Mark	316 vs 68

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Around 53% lower typical power consumption: 49 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 3000M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

998

254

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

316

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 3000M	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	998	254
PassMark - G2D Mark	316	68
Geekbench - OpenCL	3783
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	10.95
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	325.007
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	13.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	27.961
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	374
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	543
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	374
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	543

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 3000M	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Curie
Code name	GF104	G71
Launch date	22 February 2011	1 May 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$398.96	$259
Place in performance rating	1493	1496
Price now	$199.95
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	7.98
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	432.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	240
Texture fill rate	18 GTexel / s	9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	49 Watt
Transistor count	1,950 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Length		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	80.0 GB / s	42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz	1320 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0