NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M and NVIDIA GeForce 9650M 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 370M

NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
Around 45% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 29 Watt
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 334 vs 328

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 August 2008 vs 13 March 2008
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 29 Watt
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	334 vs 328

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

2.3x more core clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 550 MHz
4.5x more texture fill rate: 10 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 32 vs 8
3.6x better floating-point performance: 80 gflops vs 22.4 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
2.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 270 vs 93

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1250 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	32 vs 8
Floating-point performance	80 gflops vs 22.4 gflops
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	270 vs 93

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

270

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

334

328

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	93	270
PassMark - G2D Mark	334	328

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G98	G84
Launch date	15 August 2008	13 March 2008
Place in performance rating	485	486
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	1250 MHz
Floating-point performance	22.4 gflops	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	8	32
Texture fill rate	2.2 GTexel / s	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	29 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	289 million
CUDA cores		32
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3	GDDR2?, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0