NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M 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 Quadro FX 1600M

NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 39% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 450 MHz
5.6x more texture fill rate: 10 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
2.4x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 668 MHz
10x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 231 vs 23

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2007 vs 18 January 2006
Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 668 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	231 vs 23

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 98 vs 89

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	98 vs 89

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

231

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M	NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	231	23
PassMark - G2D Mark	89	98

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M	NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G84	G72
Launch date	1 June 2007	18 January 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$149.90
Place in performance rating	1414	1416
Price now	$149.90
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	1.87
Technical info
Core clock speed	625 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	289 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-HE	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	5.34 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	668 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0