Tesla S1075 vs Quadro FX 1500M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameG71GT200B
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date18 April 2006 (18 years ago)1 June 2008 (16 years ago)

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 cores27240
Core clock speed375 MHz610 MHz
Boost clock speed375 MHzno data
Number of transistors278 million1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt800 Watt
Texture fill rate9.00048.80
Floating-point processing powerno data0.6221 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs2480

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-IIPCIe 2.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot

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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit512 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 GB/s102.4 GB/s
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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model3.04.0
OpenGL2.13.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2006 1 June 2008
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 800 Watt

FX 1500M has 1677.8% lower power consumption.

Tesla S1075, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 63.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 1500M and Tesla S1075. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 1500M is a mobile workstation card while Tesla S1075 is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
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