NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 6% higher core clock speed: 530 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 800 MHz

Launch date	15 August 2008 vs 14 May 2007
Core clock speed	530 MHz vs 500 MHz
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

Around 89% higher texture fill rate: 4 GTexel / s vs 2.12 GTexel / s
15x more pipelines: 120 vs 8
5.8x better floating-point performance: 120 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 168 vs 70
Around 59% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 267 vs 168

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s vs 2.12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	120 vs 8
Floating-point performance	120 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	168 vs 70
PassMark - G2D Mark	267 vs 168

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

168

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

168

267

Name	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
PassMark - G3D Mark	70	168
PassMark - G2D Mark	168	267
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1690

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G98	M76
Launch date	15 August 2008	14 May 2007
Place in performance rating	1037	1039
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	530 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	20.8 gflops	120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	8	120
Texture fill rate	2.12 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	390 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-I	MXM-II
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3	DDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
PowerPlay 7.0