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).

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

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