Radeon Instinct MI100 vs GeForce GTS 150 OEM

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Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)CDNA 1.0 (2020)
GPU code nameG92Arcturus
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date10 March 2009 (15 years ago)16 November 2020 (4 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 cores1287680
Core clock speed738 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1502 MHz
Number of transistors754 million50,000 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)141 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate47.23721.0
Floating-point processing power0.47 TFLOPS23.07 TFLOPS
ROPs1664
TMUs64480

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin2x 8-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 typeGDDR3HBM2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB32 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s1,229 GB/s

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)N/A
Shader Model4.0N/A
OpenGL3.3N/A
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 March 2009 16 November 2020
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 32 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 141 Watt 300 Watt

GTS 150 OEM has 112.8% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI100, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 150 OEM and Radeon Instinct MI100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTS 150 OEM is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI100 is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150 OEM
GeForce GTS 150 OEM
AMD Radeon Instinct MI100
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