Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile vs Quadro NVS 150M

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name	G98	Vega 10
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Release date	15 August 2008 (15 years ago)	1 June 2018 (5 years ago)
Current price	$105	$841

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	8	3584
Core clock speed	530 MHz	1138 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1301 MHz
Number of transistors	210 million	12,500 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	10 Watt	120 Watt
Texture fill rate	2.120	291.4
Floating-point performance	20.8 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Quadro NVS 150M and Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface

MXM-I

PCIe 3.0 x16

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	GDDR2, GDDR3	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	8 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB/s	409.6 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

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	No outputs	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI	no data	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	4.0	6.4
OpenGL	3.3	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.1.125
CUDA	1.1	no data

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	15 August 2008	1 June 2018
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	8 GB
Chip lithography	65 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	10 Watt	120 Watt

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