NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 945A 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 945A

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 945A

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.9x more core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 375 MHz
3.1x more boost clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 375 MHz
3.1x more texture fill rate: 28.22 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
19.2x more pipelines: 384 vs 20
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
Around 36% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 45 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 716 vs 275
10.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1852 vs 171

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 18 April 2006
Core clock speed	1072 MHz vs 375 MHz
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz vs 375 MHz
Texture fill rate	28.22 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 20
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 45 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	716 vs 275
PassMark - G3D Mark	1852 vs 171

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 945A
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

716

275

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1852

171

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 945A	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
Geekbench - OpenCL	32359
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	28.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	381.898
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.991
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	30.793
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	107.63
PassMark - G2D Mark	716	275
PassMark - G3D Mark	1852	171

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 945A	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Curie
Code name	GM108	G71
Launch date	13 March 2015	18 April 2006
Place in performance rating	604	603
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz	375 MHz
Core clock speed	1072 MHz	375 MHz
Floating-point performance	903.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	384	20
Texture fill rate	28.22 GTexel / s	9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count		278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-II
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	500 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	256
Shared memory		0