AMD Radeon R8 M445DX vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R8 M445DX and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R8 M445DX

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R8 M445DX

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 47% higher core clock speed: 780 MHz vs 530 MHz
88x more pipelines: 704 vs 8
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 181 vs 168
11.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 797 vs 70

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 May 2016 vs 15 August 2008
Core clock speed	780 MHz vs 530 MHz
Pipelines	704 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	181 vs 168
PassMark - G3D Mark	797 vs 70

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R8 M445DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

181

168

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

797

Name	AMD Radeon R8 M445DX	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1427
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1427
PassMark - G2D Mark	181	168
PassMark - G3D Mark	797	70
Geekbench - OpenCL	21666
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2636
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2636
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R8 M445DX	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Tesla
Code name	Meso	G98
Launch date	15 May 2016	15 August 2008
Place in performance rating	1006	1010
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1021 MHz
Core clock speed	780 MHz	530 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	704	8
Transistor count	3,100 million	210 million
Floating-point performance		20.8 gflops
Texture fill rate		2.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		10 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	MXM-I
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Memory bus width	128 + 64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory type	DDR4 / DDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		11.2 GB / s
Memory clock speed		1400 MHz