GeForce MX150 GP107 vs Radeon R9 285

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking315not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation8.76no data
Power efficiency6.26no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameTongaGP107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date2 September 2014 (10 years ago)23 February 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$249 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1792384
Core clock speed918 MHz1469 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1532 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 million3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)190 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate102.836.77
Floating-point processing power3.29 TFLOPS1.177 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs11224

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 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length221 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth176.0 GB/s48.06 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 HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2No outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.11.2
Vulkan1.2.1701.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 September 2014 23 February 2019
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 190 Watt 25 Watt

MX150 GP107 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 660% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 285 and GeForce MX150 GP107. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 285 is a desktop card while GeForce MX150 GP107 is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R9 285
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