AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M 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: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 375 MHz
10x more texture fill rate: 89.6 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
89.6x more pipelines: 1792 vs 20
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
6x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 512 MB
5x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Launch date	7 March 2013 vs 18 April 2006
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 375 MHz
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 20
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

4.4x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 200 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 200 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	67.802
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1230.769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	81.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	370.179
PassMark - G3D Mark		171
PassMark - G2D Mark		275

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Curie
Code name	Tahiti	G71
Launch date	7 March 2013	18 April 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$449
Place in performance rating	601	598
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	375 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1792	20
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s	9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	278 million
Boost clock speed		375 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-II
Length	279 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	240.0 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	500 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	256
Shared memory		0