NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP vs NVIDIA GeForce G102M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP and NVIDIA GeForce G102M 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 4x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 71 vs 59
  • Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1023 vs 890
  • Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1023 vs 890
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 December 2009 vs 8 January 2009
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 71 vs 59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1023 vs 890
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1023 vs 890

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G102M

  • Around 82% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 28 Watt
  • Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 168 vs 145
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 550 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 28 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 168 vs 145

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce G102M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
145
168
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
71
59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1023
890
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1023
890
Name NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP NVIDIA GeForce G102M
PassMark - G3D Mark 145 168
PassMark - G2D Mark 71 59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1023 890
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1023 890
Geekbench - OpenCL 2855

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP NVIDIA GeForce G102M

Essentials

Architecture Tesla 2.0 Tesla
Code name GT218 MCP79MX
Launch date 1 December 2009 8 January 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $169
Place in performance rating 1611 1612
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 550 MHz 1000 MHz
Floating-point performance 44 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 16
Texture fill rate 4.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 28 Watt 14 Watt
Transistor count 260 million 210 million
CUDA cores 16
Gigaflops 48

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort VGAHDMIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None
Bus support PCI-E 1.0

API support

DirectX 10.1 9.0c
OpenGL 3.3 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 400 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR2

Technologies

CUDA
Power management 8.0