GeForce 305M vs NVS 4200M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1157not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.03no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGF119GT218
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date22 February 2011 (13 years ago)10 January 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4816
Core clock speed810 MHz525 MHz
Number of transistors292 million260 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt14 Watt
Texture fill rate6.4804.200
Floating-point processing power0.1555 TFLOPS0.0368 TFLOPS
Gigaflopsno data55
ROPs44
TMUs88

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Bus supportno dataPCI-E 2.0
InterfaceMXMPCIe 2.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GBUp to 512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHzUp to 700 (DDR3), Up to 700 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s11.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsDisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor supportno data+
HDMI-+
Maximum VGA resolutionno data2048x1536

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power managementno data8.0

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.62.1
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

NVS 4200M 280
+86.7%
GeForce 305M 150

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 February 2011 10 January 2010
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 14 Watt

NVS 4200M has an age advantage of 1 year.

GeForce 305M, on the other hand, has 78.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between NVS 4200M and GeForce 305M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that NVS 4200M is a mobile workstation card while GeForce 305M is a mobile workstation one.


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