GeForce GTS 150 OEM vs FirePro M2000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1082not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.32no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameTurksG92
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date1 July 2012 (12 years ago)10 March 2009 (15 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 cores480128
Core clock speed500 MHz738 MHz
Number of transistors716 million754 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)33 Watt141 Watt
Texture fill rate12.0047.23
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPS0.47 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2464

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 sizemedium sizedno data
Bus supportn/ano data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Form factorchip-downno data
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s64 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 outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video
StereoOutput3D+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 July 2012 10 March 2009
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt 141 Watt

FirePro M2000 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 62.5% more advanced lithography process, and 327.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro M2000 and GeForce GTS 150 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro M2000 is a mobile workstation card while GeForce GTS 150 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD FirePro M2000
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