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).

 

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
70
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 1007 1008
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