AMD Radeon R5 M315 vs NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 M315 and NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

AMD Radeon R5 M315

NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 M315

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 9 month(s) later
4.9x more core clock speed: 970 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 180 nm
128x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 32 MB
5.5x more memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 183 MHz
95.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 478 vs 5
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 143 vs 142

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 25 July 2000
Core clock speed	970 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 183 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	478 vs 5
PassMark - G2D Mark	143 vs 142

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR

34.4x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 23.28 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 23.28 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 M315
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

478

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

143

142

Name	AMD Radeon R5 M315	NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR
PassMark - G3D Mark	478	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	143	142
Geekbench - OpenCL	3573
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	780
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	780
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2761
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2761

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R5 M315	NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Celsius
Code name	Meso	NV11 B2
Design	AMD Radeon R5 300 Series
Launch date	5 May 2015	25 July 2000
Place in performance rating	1156	1153
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Compute units	5
Core clock speed	970 MHz	200 MHz
Floating-point performance	745.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	23.28 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Transistor count	3,100 million	20 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12	7.0
Mantle
OpenCL	Not Listed
OpenGL	4.4	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	2.928 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	183 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	SDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
DualGraphics
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore