GeForce GTS 150M and GeForce 256 SDR - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 150M
GeForce 256 SDR
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name
N10E-GE1
NV10 A3
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2009
October 1999
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
2-way
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Core clock speed
400 MHz
120 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
128 gflops
-
Gigaflops
192
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
220 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
17 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
-
Power consumption (TDP)
45 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
13 billion/sec
0.48
Memory type
GDDR3
SDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
32 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 800 MHz
143 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51 GB/s
1.144 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DisplayPortHDMIDual Link DVILVDSSingle Link DVIVGA
1x VGA
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
7.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.2
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-