NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500 vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500 and NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
325x more core clock speed: 325 MHz vs 1 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 110 nm
8.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 170 vs 19
4.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 486 vs 112
4.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 486 vs 112

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	20 April 2006 vs 1 February 2006
Core clock speed	325 MHz vs 1 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 110 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	170 vs 19
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	486 vs 112
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	486 vs 112

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150

Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 92 vs 74

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	92 vs 74

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

170

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

486

112

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

486

112

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150
PassMark - G3D Mark	170	19
PassMark - G2D Mark	74	92
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	486	112
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	486	112

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150
Essentials
Architecture	Curie
Code name	G71	C51MV
Launch date	20 April 2006	1 February 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$699
Place in performance rating	1609	1610
Price now	$109.99
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	1.84
Technical info
Core clock speed	325 MHz	1 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	110 nm
Texture fill rate	6.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt
Transistor count	278 million
Boost clock speed		425 MHz
Pipelines		2
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	173 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	shared Memory
OpenGL	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	40.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3
Shared memory		yes