AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970M 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: 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 375 MHz
7.6x more texture fill rate: 68 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
64x more pipelines: 1280 vs 20
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
4.8x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
20.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3529 vs 171
Around 84% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 506 vs 275

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	24 April 2012 vs 18 April 2006
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 375 MHz
Texture fill rate	68 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 20
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3529 vs 171
PassMark - G2D Mark	506 vs 275

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

2.2x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 100 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3529

171

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

506

275

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7970M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
PassMark - G3D Mark	3529	171
PassMark - G2D Mark	506	275
Geekbench - OpenCL	22410
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	51.181
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1121.002
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	81.527
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	256.99
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3339
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3339
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7970M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Curie
Code name	Wimbledon	G71
Launch date	24 April 2012	18 April 2006
Place in performance rating	590	593
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	375 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,176 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1280	20
Texture fill rate	68 GTexel / s	9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	278 million
Boost clock speed		375 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	MXM-II
Laptop size	large	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	500 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	256
Shared memory	0	0