NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 231 vs 213
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 53 vs 49
  • Around 2% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 6543 vs 6433
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 January 2010 vs 15 June 2009
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 231 vs 213
PassMark - G2D Mark 53 vs 49
Geekbench - OpenCL 6543 vs 6433

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

  • 2.2x more core clock speed: 1210 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 35 Watt
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1860 vs 1814
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1860 vs 1814
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1210 MHz vs 550 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt vs 35 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1860 vs 1814
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1860 vs 1814

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
231
213
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
53
49
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
6543
6433
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1814
1860
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1814
1860
Name NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M
PassMark - G3D Mark 231 213
PassMark - G2D Mark 53 49
Geekbench - OpenCL 6543 6433
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1814 1860
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1814 1860

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

Essentials

Architecture Tesla 2.0 Tesla 2.0
Code name GT216 GT216
Launch date 7 January 2010 15 June 2009
Place in performance rating 1561 1563
Type Mobile workstation Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 550 MHz 1210 MHz
Floating-point performance 116.16 gflops 116.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 48 48
Texture fill rate 8.8 GTexel / s 8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 23 Watt
Transistor count 486 million 486 million
CUDA cores 48
Gigaflops 174

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs Single Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMIVGA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized medium sized
Bus support PCI-E 2.0

API support

DirectX 10.1 10.1
OpenGL 3.3 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 25.28 GB / s 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1580 MHz
Memory type GDDR3, DDR3 DDR3, GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0