AMD Radeon HD 6650M vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6650M 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6650M

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6650M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 13% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 530 MHz
6.8x more texture fill rate: 14.4 GTexel / s vs 2.12 GTexel / s
60x more pipelines: 480 vs 8
27.7x better floating-point performance: 576.0 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
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1400 MHz
10.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 756 vs 70
Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 225 vs 168

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 15 August 2008
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 530 MHz
Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s vs 2.12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 8
Floating-point performance	576.0 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	756 vs 70
PassMark - G2D Mark	225 vs 168

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6650M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

756

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

225

168

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6650M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
PassMark - G3D Mark	756	70
PassMark - G2D Mark	225	168
Geekbench - OpenCL	5780
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1866
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1866
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3334
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3334

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6650M	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	1035	1037
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	530 MHz
Floating-point performance	576.0 gflops	20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	480	8
Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s	2.12 GTexel / s
Transistor count	716 million	210 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		10 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	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	25.6 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0