AMD Radeon Pro W5500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W5500 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: 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon Pro W5500

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W5500

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 19% higher core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 1000 MHz
9476.9x more texture fill rate: 123.2 GTexel/s vs 13 billion / sec
22x more pipelines: 1408 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

Launch date	10 Feb 2020 vs 3 March 2009
Core clock speed	1187 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	123.2 GTexel/s vs 13 billion / sec
Pipelines	1408 vs 64
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

2.8x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 125 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 125 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

Name	AMD Radeon Pro W5500	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	130.7
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2361.73
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	13.641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	135.462
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	774.974
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	12184
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3463
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	12184
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3463
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355
PassMark - G2D Mark		407
PassMark - G3D Mark		504

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro W5500	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Navi 14	G94
Launch date	10 Feb 2020	3 March 2009
Launch price (MSRP)	$399
Place in performance rating	330	372
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz
Core clock speed	1187 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	65 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	246.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	7.885 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.942 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1408	64
Pixel fill rate	44.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	123.2 GTexel/s	13 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 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	4x DisplayPort	DisplayPortHDMIDual Link DVILVDSSingle Link DVIVGA
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
Width	Single-slot
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	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s	51 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14000 MHz effective)
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