ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO vs Quadro NVS 150M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1400not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.23no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code nameG98M10
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date15 August 2008 (16 years ago)1 June 2004 (20 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 cores8no data
Core clock speed530 MHz333 MHz
Number of transistors210 million76 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Wattno data
Texture fill rate2.1201.332
Floating-point processing power0.0208 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs44

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).

InterfaceMXM-IAGP 8x

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 typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount256 MB128 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth11.2 GB/s6.4 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 August 2008 1 June 2004
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 128 MB
Chip lithography 65 nm 130 nm

NVS 150M has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 150M and Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro NVS 150M is a mobile workstation card while Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
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