Radeon R3 Graphics vs GeForce MX150

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking592not rated
Place by popularity99not in top-100
Power efficiency40.36no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGP108Beema
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date17 May 2017 (7 years ago)28 January 2015 (9 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 cores384128
Core clock speed937 MHz267 MHz
Boost clock speed1038 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors1,800 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate24.914.800
Floating-point processing power0.7972 TFLOPS0.1536 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs248

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
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1253 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth40.1 GB/sno data
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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 May 2017 28 January 2015
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 15 Watt

GeForce MX150 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 50% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce MX150 and Radeon R3 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce MX150 is a notebook card while Radeon R3 Graphics is a desktop one.


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