NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD FirePro S7150

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and AMD FirePro S7150 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, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

AMD FirePro S7150

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

2x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 150 Watt
Around 32% higher memory clock speed: 6612 MHz vs 5000 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed	6612 MHz vs 5000 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro S7150

Around 2% higher core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 1026 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 117.6 GTexel / s vs 57.12 GTexel / s
2.3x more pipelines: 1792 vs 768
2.1x better floating-point performance: 3,763 gflops vs 1,828 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB

Core clock speed	1050 MHz vs 1026 MHz
Texture fill rate	117.6 GTexel / s vs 57.12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 768
Floating-point performance	3,763 gflops vs 1,828 gflops
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
GPU 2: AMD FirePro S7150

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power	AMD FirePro S7150
PassMark - G3D Mark		3770
PassMark - G2D Mark		414
Geekbench - OpenCL		27103
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		27.544
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		570.969
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.687
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		23.637
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6147
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		4359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		583
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6147
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		4359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		583

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power	AMD FirePro S7150
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 3.0
Code name	GM206	Tonga
Launch date	1 March 2016	1 February 2016
Launch price (MSRP)	$159	$2,399
Place in performance rating	not rated	657
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1190 MHz
Core clock speed	1026 MHz	1050 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,828 gflops	3,763 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	768	1792
Texture fill rate	57.12 GTexel / s	117.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	2,940 million	5,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	202 mm	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	105.8 GB / s	160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6612 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5