AMD Radeon R9 350 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 350 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon R9 350

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 350

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 375 MHz
38.4x more pipelines: 768 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
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) vs 1000 MHz

Launch date	12 June 2015 vs 18 April 2006
Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 375 MHz
Pipelines	768 vs 20
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

2.1x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 95 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 350
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Name	AMD Radeon R9 350	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
Geekbench - OpenCL	10008
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2609
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2609
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3911
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	9664
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	9664
PassMark - G3D Mark		171
PassMark - G2D Mark		275

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 350	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
Essentials
Architecture	Tobago	Curie
Launch date	12 June 2015	18 April 2006
Place in performance rating	601	593
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Code name		G71
Technical info
Core clock speed	925 MHz	375 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1421 GFLOPS
Pipelines	768	20
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	45 Watt
Boost clock speed		375 MHz
Texture fill rate		9 GTexel / s
Transistor count		278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2 x DisplayPort, DVI	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDCP
Number of simultaneous displays	4
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-II
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenGL	4.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	500 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	256
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)