AMD FirePro M4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro M4000 and NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD FirePro M4000

NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M4000

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 59% higher core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 425 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
88.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1596 vs 18
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 407 vs 194

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 June 2012 vs 16 November 2007
Core clock speed	675 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1596 vs 18
PassMark - G2D Mark	407 vs 194

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro M4000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1596

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

407

194

Name	AMD FirePro M4000	NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M
PassMark - G3D Mark	1596	18
PassMark - G2D Mark	407	194
Geekbench - OpenCL	5532
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	15.659
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	424.37
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.67
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	30.072
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	79.304
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2189
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3539
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2189
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3539
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD FirePro M4000	NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Curie
Code name	Chelsea	MCP67M
Launch date	27 June 2012	16 November 2007
Place in performance rating	935	938
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	675 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	512
Texture fill rate	21.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt
Transistor count	1,500 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
StereoOutput3D
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	n / a
Form factor	MXM-A
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0