AMD Radeon Pro 5500M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500M and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 Pro 5500M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 8 month(s) later
9600x more texture fill rate: 124.8 GTexel/s vs 13 billion / sec
24x more pipelines: 1536 vs 64
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 65 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
13.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6779 vs 504
Around 63% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 663 vs 407

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 Nov 2019 vs 3 March 2009
Texture fill rate	124.8 GTexel/s vs 13 billion / sec
Pipelines	1536 vs 64
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	6779 vs 504
PassMark - G2D Mark	663 vs 407

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

Around 89% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 85 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 85 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6779

504

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

663

407

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 5500M	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M
PassMark - G3D Mark	6779	504
PassMark - G2D Mark	663	407
Geekbench - OpenCL	36944
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	105.82
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1860.146
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	11.238
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	94.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	596.819
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	9175
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3670
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	9175
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3670
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3426

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 5500M	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Navi 14	G94
Launch date	13 Nov 2019	3 March 2009
Place in performance rating	377	378
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz
Compute units	24
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	65 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	249.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	7.987 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.994 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1536	64
Pixel fill rate	41.60 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	124.8 GTexel/s	13 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	85 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	505 million
CUDA cores		64
Floating-point performance		128 gflops
Gigaflops		192
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	DisplayPortHDMIDual Link DVILVDSSingle Link DVIVGA
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size		large
MXM Type		MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options		2-way
API support
DirectX	12.1	10.0
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	192 GB/s	51 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
MXM 3.0 Type-B
PCI-E 2.0
Power management		8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
PureVideo HD