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.

 

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
93
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 486 487
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