ATI FirePro V7800 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Comparative analysis of ATI FirePro V7800 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

ATI FirePro V7800

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V7800

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 32% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 530 MHz
23.8x more texture fill rate: 50.4 GTexel / s vs 2.12 GTexel / s
180x more pipelines: 1440 vs 8
96.9x better floating-point performance: 2,016.0 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 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
29x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2028 vs 70
Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 307 vs 168

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 April 2010 vs 15 August 2008
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 530 MHz
Texture fill rate	50.4 GTexel / s vs 2.12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1440 vs 8
Floating-point performance	2,016.0 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2028 vs 70
PassMark - G2D Mark	307 vs 168

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

15x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 150 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI FirePro V7800
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2028

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

307

168

Name	ATI FirePro V7800	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
PassMark - G3D Mark	2028	70
PassMark - G2D Mark	307	168
Geekbench - OpenCL	4894
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	15.084
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1124.892
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.448
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	39.448
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	181.538
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3721
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	63

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI FirePro V7800	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Cypress	G98
Launch date	26 April 2010	15 August 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$759
Place in performance rating	1010	1011
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	530 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,016.0 gflops	20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	1440	8
Texture fill rate	50.4 GTexel / s	2.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	10 Watt
Transistor count	2,154 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-I
Length	254 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	128.0 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		0