NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 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.
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M
- Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
- Around 35% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 743 MHz
- Around 9% higher texture fill rate: 13 billion / sec vs 11.89 GTexel / s
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
- 4.8x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 215 Watt
- 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
- Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 407 vs 397
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Launch date | 3 March 2009 vs 14 May 2007 |
| Core clock speed | 1000 MHz vs 743 MHz |
| Texture fill rate | 13 billion / sec vs 11.89 GTexel / s |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm vs 80 nm |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 45 Watt vs 215 Watt |
| Maximum memory size | 1 GB vs 512 MB |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 407 vs 397 |
Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
- 5x more pipelines: 320 vs 64
- 3.7x better floating-point performance: 475.5 gflops vs 128 gflops
- Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 660 vs 504
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Pipelines | 320 vs 64 |
| Floating-point performance | 475.5 gflops vs 128 gflops |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 660 vs 504 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
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| Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M | ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT |
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| PassMark - G2D Mark | 407 | 397 |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 504 | 660 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M | ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT | |
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Essentials |
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| Architecture | Tesla | TeraScale |
| Code name | G94 | R600 |
| Launch date | 3 March 2009 | 14 May 2007 |
| Place in performance rating | 372 | 375 |
| Type | Laptop | Desktop |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $399 | |
Technical info |
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| Core clock speed | 1000 MHz | 743 MHz |
| CUDA cores | 64 | |
| Floating-point performance | 128 gflops | 475.5 gflops |
| Gigaflops | 192 | |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | 80 nm |
| Pipelines | 64 | 320 |
| Texture fill rate | 13 billion / sec | 11.89 GTexel / s |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 45 Watt | 215 Watt |
| Transistor count | 505 million | 720 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Audio input for HDMI | S / PDIF | |
| Display Connectors | DisplayPortHDMIDual Link DVILVDSSingle Link DVIVGA | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
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| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| 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 | 241 mm | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | |
API support |
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| DirectX | 10.0 | 10.0 |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | 512 MB |
| Memory bandwidth | 51 GB / s | 106.0 GB / s |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | 512 Bit |
| Memory type | GDDR3 | GDDR3 |
| Shared memory | 0 | |
| Memory clock speed | 1656 MHz | |
Technologies |
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| CUDA | ||
| MXM 3.0 Type-B | ||
| PCI-E 2.0 | ||
| Power management | 8.0 | |
| PowerMizer 8.0 | ||
| PureVideo HD | ||
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