NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M

NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 50% higher core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 450 MHz
24x more texture fill rate: 43.2 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 90 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
3x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 668 MHz
25x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 575 vs 23

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 August 2008 vs 18 January 2006
Core clock speed	675 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	43.2 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 668 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	575 vs 23

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 98 vs 42

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	98 vs 42

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

575

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M	NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	575	23
PassMark - G2D Mark	42	98
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3272
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3272

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M	NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G92	G72
Launch date	14 August 2008	18 January 2006
Place in performance rating	1413	1416
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	675 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	128
Texture fill rate	43.2 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt
Transistor count	754 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	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	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	5.34 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	668 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
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