NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 96% higher core clock speed: 736 MHz vs 375 MHz
  • 3.9x more texture fill rate: 35.3 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
  • 14.4x more pipelines: 288 vs 20
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • 3.8x more memory clock speed: 3828 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • Around 63% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 447 vs 275
  • 9.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1572 vs 171
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 14 May 2011 vs 18 April 2006
Core clock speed 736 MHz vs 375 MHz
Texture fill rate 35.3 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
Pipelines 288 vs 20
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 3828 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 447 vs 275
PassMark - G3D Mark 1572 vs 171

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

  • 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 150 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
447
275
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1572
171
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
PassMark - G2D Mark 447 275
PassMark - G3D Mark 1572 171
Geekbench - OpenCL 27378
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2879
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2879
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3372
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3372
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3322
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3322

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Curie
Code name GF114 G71
Launch date 14 May 2011 18 April 2006
Place in performance rating 599 602
Type Desktop Mobile workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 736 MHz 375 MHz
Floating-point performance 847.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 288 20
Texture fill rate 35.3 GTexel / s 9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 45 Watt
Transistor count 1,950 million 278 million
Boost clock speed 375 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-II
Length 210 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 91.9 GB / s 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 500 Bit
Memory clock speed 3828 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 256
Shared memory 0