AMD Radeon R9 M275 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M275 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: 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R9 M275

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M275

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 70% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 530 MHz
17.5x more texture fill rate: 37 GTexel / s vs 2.12 GTexel / s
80x more pipelines: 640 vs 8
56.9x better floating-point performance: 1,184 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
2.9x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1400 MHz
15.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1115 vs 70
3.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 569 vs 168

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 January 2014 vs 15 August 2008
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 530 MHz
Texture fill rate	37 GTexel / s vs 2.12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 8
Floating-point performance	1,184 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1115 vs 70
PassMark - G2D Mark	569 vs 168

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M275
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1115

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

569

168

Name	AMD Radeon R9 M275	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
PassMark - G3D Mark	1115	70
PassMark - G2D Mark	569	168
Geekbench - OpenCL	9231
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	28.064
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	313.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.206
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	34.381
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	121.685
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1162
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1162
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1717

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 M275	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Venus	G98
Launch date	28 January 2014	15 August 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$799.99
Place in performance rating	1005	1007
Price now	$699.99
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100)	3.01
Technical info
Boost clock speed	925 MHz
Core clock speed	900 MHz	530 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,184 gflops	20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	640	8
Texture fill rate	37 GTexel / s	2.12 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,500 million	210 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		10 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-I
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	64 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0