NVIDIA GeForce 840A vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 840A 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, 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).

NVIDIA GeForce 840A

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 840A

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 94% higher core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 530 MHz
8.5x more texture fill rate: 17.98 GTexel / s vs 2.12 GTexel / s
48x more pipelines: 384 vs 8
41.5x better floating-point performance: 863.2 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Around 43% higher memory clock speed: 2002 MHz vs 1400 MHz
16x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1123 vs 70
Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 221 vs 168

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 March 2014 vs 15 August 2008
Core clock speed	1029 MHz vs 530 MHz
Texture fill rate	17.98 GTexel / s vs 2.12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 8
Floating-point performance	863.2 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	2002 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1123 vs 70
PassMark - G2D Mark	221 vs 168

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

3.3x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 33 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 33 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 840A
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1123

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

221

168

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 840A	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
PassMark - G3D Mark	1123	70
PassMark - G2D Mark	221	168
Geekbench - OpenCL	5596
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2188
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2188
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2314
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3117
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3117

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 840A	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Tesla
Code name	GM108	G98
Launch date	17 March 2014	15 August 2008
Place in performance rating	991	1011
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz
Core clock speed	1029 MHz	530 MHz
Floating-point performance	863.2 gflops	20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	384	8
Texture fill rate	17.98 GTexel / s	2.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	10 Watt
Transistor count		210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-I
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	16.02 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2002 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		0