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NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M

NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M

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This is a professional video card for notebooks from NVidia It is based on 7900GTX.

The application performance is very good due to special professional drivers (3D rendering, CAD), but the gaming performance is weaker. With modded drivers, it should work like a 7900 GTX.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M

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The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M is a upper mid-range professional graphics card for mobile workstations with about 15" displays. It is based on the same chip as the GeForce GT 335M but can be also equipped with fast GDDR5 graphics memory. The FX1800M is shipped with professional drivers and a special BIOS that improves the performance and stability in applications like CAD and DCC.

The certified drivers guarantee flawless and fast working with professional applications like Premiere, Photoshop, After Effect, AutoCAD, 3ds Max, trueSpace, Blender, Catia, IronCAD, Cinema 4D, Lightwave 3D, Softimage, Mathematica ... A list of all certified applications can be found on the Nvidia.com homepage. Compared to GeForce products, the Quadro FX cards offer a significantly better performance, especially for OpenGL based apps.

The gaming performance should be similar to the GeForce GT 335M, altough gamers should choose a GeForce graphics card because of the optimized driver support (that leads to a better performance and less problems in games). Still all modern and demanding games of 2009 should at least run in medium detail settings (see the GeForce GT 335M page for more gaming results).

The chip is manufactured in 40nm and offers 72 1-dimensional unified shaders. These can be compared to about 300-400 5-dimensional shaders in graphics cards by AMD. These processing cores can also be accessed with CUDA, OpenCL, and DirectCompute to use the calculation power for other tasks than rendering images (for example transcoding videos). 

The QuadroFX 1800M also supports PureVideo HD with the new VideoProcessor (VP4) to decode HD videos on the graphics card. This helps reducing CPU load and increasing battery runtimes.

The Quadro FX 1800M also supports the automatic switching between the integrated and dedicated graphics card using Optimus. First mobile workstations do not offer Optimus, as the development cycles of these laptops are very long.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500MNVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
Quadro FX Series
Quadro FX 3800M compare 128 @ 0.68 GHz256 Bit @ 1000 MHz
Quadro FX 3700M compare 128 @ 0.55 GHz256 Bit @ 800 MHz
Quadro FX 2800M compare 96 @ 0.6 GHz256 Bit @ 1000 MHz
Quadro FX 3600M compare 96 @ 0.5 GHz256 Bit @ 800 MHz
Quadro FX 1800M 72 @ 0.56 GHz128 Bit @ 1100 MHz
Quadro FX 2700M compare 48 @ 0.53 GHz256 Bit @ 800 MHz
Quadro FX 880M compare 48 @ 0.55 GHz128 Bit @ 790 MHz
Quadro FX 3500M compare 24/8 cores @ 0.58 GHz256 Bit @ 700 MHz
Quadro FX 2500M 24/8 cores @ 0.5 GHz256 Bit @ 600 MHz
Quadro FX 1700M compare 32 @ 0.63 GHz128 Bit @ 800 MHz
Quadro FX 1600M compare 32 @ 0.63 GHz128 Bit @ 800 MHz
Quadro FX 1500M compare 20/7 cores @ 0.38 GHz256 Bit @ 500 MHz
Quadro FX 770M compare 32 @ 0.5 GHz128 Bit @ 800 MHz
Quadro FX 570M compare 32 @ 0.48 GHz128 Bit @ 700 MHz
Quadro FX 380M compare 16 @ 0.63 GHz64 Bit @ 800 MHz
Quadro FX 370M compare 8 @ 0.58 GHz64 Bit @ 700 MHz
Quadro FX 360M compare 16 @ 0.4 GHz64 Bit @ 600 MHz
Quadro FX 350M compare 4/3 cores @ 0.45 GHz64 Bit @ 350 MHz
Quadro FX 3800M compare 128 @ 0.68 GHz256 Bit @ 1000 MHz
Quadro FX 3700M compare 128 @ 0.55 GHz256 Bit @ 800 MHz
Quadro FX 2800M compare 96 @ 0.6 GHz256 Bit @ 1000 MHz
Quadro FX 3600M compare 96 @ 0.5 GHz256 Bit @ 800 MHz
Quadro FX 1800M 72 @ 0.56 GHz128 Bit @ 1100 MHz
Quadro FX 2700M compare 48 @ 0.53 GHz256 Bit @ 800 MHz
Quadro FX 880M compare 48 @ 0.55 GHz128 Bit @ 790 MHz
Quadro FX 3500M compare 24/8 cores @ 0.58 GHz256 Bit @ 700 MHz
Quadro FX 2500M 24/8 cores @ 0.5 GHz256 Bit @ 600 MHz
Quadro FX 1700M compare 32 @ 0.63 GHz128 Bit @ 800 MHz
Quadro FX 1600M compare 32 @ 0.63 GHz128 Bit @ 800 MHz
Quadro FX 1500M compare 20/7 cores @ 0.38 GHz256 Bit @ 500 MHz
Quadro FX 770M compare 32 @ 0.5 GHz128 Bit @ 800 MHz
Quadro FX 570M compare 32 @ 0.48 GHz128 Bit @ 700 MHz
Quadro FX 380M compare 16 @ 0.63 GHz64 Bit @ 800 MHz
Quadro FX 370M compare 8 @ 0.58 GHz64 Bit @ 700 MHz
Quadro FX 360M compare 16 @ 0.4 GHz64 Bit @ 600 MHz
Quadro FX 350M compare 4/3 cores @ 0.45 GHz64 Bit @ 350 MHz
CodenameG71glm
ArchitectureG7xGT2xx
Pipelines24 / 8 Pixel- / Vertexshader72 - unified
Core Speed500 MHz560 MHz
Memory Speed600 MHz1100 MHz
Memory Bus Width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR3DDR3, GDDR5
Max. Amount of Memory512 MB1024 MB
Shared Memorynono
APIDirectX 9c, Shader 3.0DirectX 10.1, Shader 4.1
Power Consumption45 Watt45 Watt
Transistors278 Million
technology90 nm40 nm
Features90nmPowerMizer 9.0, EnergyStar (3.8W), 16x FSAA Support, CUDA, NVIEW, OpenGL 3.2
Notebook Sizelargemedium sized
Date of Announcement29.09.2005 01.02.2010
Link to Manufacturer Pagewww.nvidia.dewww.nvidia.com
Shader Speed1125 MHz

Benchmarks

3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total + NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. total
min: 3444     avg: 3452     median: 3451.5 (1%)     max: 3459 Points
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX + NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX
min: 2774     avg: 2801     median: 2800.5 (2%)     max: 2827 Points
3DMark 2001SE - 3DMark 2001 - Standard
27600 Points (29%)
3DMark 03 - 3DMark 03 - Standard
min: 18100     avg: 18342     median: 18341.5 (10%)     max: 18583 Points
3DMark 05 - 3DMark 05 - Standard
min: 8400     avg: 8450     median: 8450 (9%)     max: 8500 Points
15249 Points (17%)
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Score Unknown Settings + NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M
3DMark 06
min: 4690     avg: 4695     median: 4695 (6%)     max: 4700 Points
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 + NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
3DMark 06
min: 7416     avg: 7573     median: 7572.5 (10%)     max: 7729 Points
SPECviewperf 11
specvp11 snx-01 + NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
SPECviewperf 11 - specvp11 snx-01
12.4 fps (7%)
specvp11 tcvis-02 + NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
SPECviewperf 11 - specvp11 tcvis-02
13 fps (7%)
specvp11 sw-02 + NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
SPECviewperf 11 - specvp11 sw-02
28.1 fps (21%)
specvp11 proe-05 + NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
SPECviewperf 11 - specvp11 proe-05
7.5 fps (9%)
specvp11 maya-03 + NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
SPECviewperf 11 - specvp11 maya-03
16.6 fps (13%)
specvp11 lightwave-01 + NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
SPECviewperf 11 - specvp11 lightwave-01
39 fps (42%)
specvp11 ensight-04 + NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
SPECviewperf 11 - specvp11 ensight-04
12.3 fps (6%)
specvp11 catia-03 + NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
SPECviewperf 11 - specvp11 catia-03
17.5 fps (9%)
Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Gaming graphics
6.6 Points (84%)
Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Graphics
5 Points (63%)
Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit + NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit
20 fps (7%)

Average Benchmarks NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M → 100% n=1

Average Benchmarks NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M → 180% n=1

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