NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M vs ATI FireGL V8650

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M and ATI FireGL V8650 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 45% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 688 MHz
  • Around 18% higher texture fill rate: 13 billion / sec vs 11.01 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
Launch date 3 March 2009 vs 14 May 2007
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 688 MHz
Texture fill rate 13 billion / sec vs 11.01 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm vs 80 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V8650

  • 5x more pipelines: 320 vs 64
  • 3.4x better floating-point performance: 440.3 gflops vs 128 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 57% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 637 vs 407
  • Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 550 vs 504
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 320 vs 64
Floating-point performance 440.3 gflops vs 128 gflops
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 637 vs 407
PassMark - G3D Mark 550 vs 504

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V8650

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
407
637
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
504
550
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M ATI FireGL V8650
PassMark - G2D Mark 407 637
PassMark - G3D Mark 504 550
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M ATI FireGL V8650

Essentials

Architecture Tesla TeraScale
Code name G94 R600
Launch date 3 March 2009 14 May 2007
Place in performance rating 372 409
Type Laptop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $2,799

Technical info

Core clock speed 1000 MHz 688 MHz
CUDA cores 64
Floating-point performance 128 gflops 440.3 gflops
Gigaflops 192
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 64 320
Texture fill rate 13 billion / sec 11.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt
Transistor count 505 million 720 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
Display Connectors DisplayPortHDMIDual Link DVILVDSSingle Link DVIVGA 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options 2-way
Length 254 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 10.0 10.0
OpenGL 2.1 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 51 GB / s 111.1 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 512 Bit
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR4
Shared memory 0
Memory clock speed 1736 MHz

Technologies

CUDA
MXM 3.0 Type-B
PCI-E 2.0
Power management 8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
PureVideo HD