Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs Quadro FX 1500

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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)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameG71Broadway
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date20 April 2006 (18 years ago)4 January 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 no data

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 coresno data800
Core clock speed325 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors278 million1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate7.80032.00
Floating-point processing powerno data1.28 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs2440

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 1.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Length173 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount256 MB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed625 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth40 GB/s64 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.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model3.05.0
OpenGL2.14.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 April 2006 4 January 2011
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 75 Watt

FX 1500 has 15.4% lower power consumption.

HD 6970M Rebrand, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 1500 and Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 1500 is a workstation card while Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500
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