ATI FirePro V9800 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Comparative analysis of ATI FirePro V9800 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, 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).

ATI FirePro V9800

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V9800

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 60% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 530 MHz
32.1x more texture fill rate: 68.0 GTexel / s vs 2.12 GTexel / s
200x more pipelines: 1600 vs 8
130.8x better floating-point performance: 2,720.0 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
3.3x more memory clock speed: 4600 MHz vs 1400 MHz
39x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2727 vs 70
3.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 655 vs 168

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 September 2010 vs 15 August 2008
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 530 MHz
Texture fill rate	68.0 GTexel / s vs 2.12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1600 vs 8
Floating-point performance	2,720.0 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	4600 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2727 vs 70
PassMark - G2D Mark	655 vs 168

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

25x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 250 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI FirePro V9800
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2727

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

655

168

Name	ATI FirePro V9800	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
PassMark - G3D Mark	2727	70
PassMark - G2D Mark	655	168
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	9.718
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	738.1
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.867
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	27.153
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	118.756

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI FirePro V9800	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Cypress	G98
Launch date	9 September 2010	15 August 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,499
Place in performance rating	627	1010
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	530 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,720.0 gflops	20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	1600	8
Texture fill rate	68.0 GTexel / s	2.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	10 Watt
Transistor count	2,154 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-I
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	147.2 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4600 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		0