NVIDIA NVS 315 vs ATI Radeon X1650

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA NVS 315 and ATI Radeon X1650 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA NVS 315

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 5% higher core clock speed: 523 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 2.1x more texture fill rate: 4.184 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
  • 2.2x more memory clock speed: 1750 MHz vs 800 MHz
Launch date 10 March 2013 vs 1 February 2007
Core clock speed 523 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 4.184 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1650

  • Around 17% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1615 vs 1382
  • Around 17% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1615 vs 1382
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1615 vs 1382
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1615 vs 1382

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA NVS 315
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1650

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1382
1615
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1382
1615
Name NVIDIA NVS 315 ATI Radeon X1650
PassMark - G3D Mark 300
PassMark - G2D Mark 179
Geekbench - OpenCL 882
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 3.025
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 79.479
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.217
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 4.705
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 6.573
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 465
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 942
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1382 1615
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 465
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 942
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1382 1615

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA NVS 315 ATI Radeon X1650

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 R500
Code name GF119 RV530
Launch date 10 March 2013 1 February 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $159
Place in performance rating 1570 1568
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 523 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 100.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 48
Texture fill rate 4.184 GTexel / s 2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 157 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DMS-59 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 145 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.6 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 14 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR2