AMD FirePro M5950 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro M5950 and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M 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 M5950

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M5950

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 37% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 530 MHz
8.2x more texture fill rate: 17.4 GTexel / s vs 2.12 GTexel / s
60x more pipelines: 480 vs 8
33.5x better floating-point performance: 696.0 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
2.6x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1400 MHz
18.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1314 vs 70
3.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 574 vs 168

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 15 August 2008
Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 530 MHz
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s vs 2.12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 8
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1314 vs 70
PassMark - G2D Mark	574 vs 168

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

3.5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 35 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 35 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro M5950
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1314

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

574

168

Name	AMD FirePro M5950	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
PassMark - G3D Mark	1314	70
PassMark - G2D Mark	574	168
Geekbench - OpenCL	1135
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	1.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	323.699
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.535
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	16.137
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	66.638
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1528
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2590
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1528
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2590
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3354

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD FirePro M5950	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Whistler	G98
Launch date	4 January 2011	15 August 2008
Place in performance rating	1006	1007
Type	Mobile workstation	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	725 MHz	530 MHz
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops	20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	480	8
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s	2.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	10 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	n / a
Form factor	MXM-A
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	MXM-I
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	57 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0