Radeon Vega 7 vs Quadro FX 1500

Place in the ranking	1245	531
Place by popularity	not in top-100	18
Power efficiency	0.46	11.39
Architecture	Curie (2003−2013)	GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code name	G71	Cezanne
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	20 April 2006 (18 years ago)	13 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$699	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	no data	448
Core clock speed	325 MHz	300 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1900 MHz
Number of transistors	278 million	9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	45 Watt
Texture fill rate	7.800	53.20
Floating-point processing power	no data	1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	8
TMUs	24	28

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	IGP
Length	173 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	System Shared
Memory bus width	256 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	625 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	40 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	9.0c (9_3)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	3.0	6.4
OpenGL	2.1	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	2.1
Vulkan	N/A	1.2

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	1−2 −2100%	22 +2100%
1440p	1−2 −3100%	32 +3100%
4K	0−1	16

Cost per frame, $

1080p	699.00	no data
1440p	699.00	no data

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.44	7.47
Recency	20 April 2006	13 April 2021
Chip lithography	90 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	45 Watt

Vega 7 has a 1597.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 14 years, a 1185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 44.4% lower power consumption.

The Radeon Vega 7 is our recommended choice as it beats the Quadro FX 1500 in performance tests.

Be aware that Quadro FX 1500 is a workstation card while Radeon Vega 7 is a notebook one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.