NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 29% higher core clock speed: 580 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 2.6x more texture fill rate: 4.64 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
  • Around 92% lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 23 Watt
  • Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • Around 72% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 136 vs 79
  • 2.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 784 vs 277
  • 2.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 784 vs 277
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 August 2008 vs 18 January 2006
Core clock speed 580 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 4.64 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt vs 23 Watt
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 136 vs 79
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 784 vs 277
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 784 vs 277

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

  • Around 68% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 47 vs 28
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 47 vs 28

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
136
79
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
28
47
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
784
277
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
784
277
Name NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 136 79
PassMark - G2D Mark 28 47
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 784 277
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 784 277

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Curie
Code name G98 G72
Launch date 15 August 2008 18 January 2006
Place in performance rating 1673 1676
Type Mobile workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 580 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 23.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 8
Texture fill rate 4.64 GTexel / s 1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt 23 Watt
Transistor count 210 million 112 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-I PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.0 9.0c
OpenGL 3.3 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 11.2 GB / s 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR2, GDDR3 DDR2
Shared memory 0