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NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M is a workstation graphics card released on April 18, 2006. It has 512 MB of GDDR3 memory, a boost clock of 375 MHz and a 45 W board power rating. It scores 171 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1.

G71GLMWorkstation

5/10 key specs recorded · 23 facts

Depth: 28 recorded fields

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 5 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

n/a

Memory

512 MB

GDDR3

Boost clock

n/a

375 MHz base

Board power

45 W

Performance

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M scores 171 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 23.3% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,235), measured across 26 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 275.

PassMark G3D Mark

171

Rank #2,235
Faster than 23.3% of 2,658 GPUs
26 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

As stated by PassMark

Category Workstation

Bus interface PCIe 1.0 x16

Max memory 512 MB

Core clock 375 MHz

Memory clock 1000 MHz

DirectX 9.0c

OpenGL 2.1

Max TDP 45 W

First benchmarked 2009-04-02

Samples 26

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M states the PCIe 1.0 x16 interface, up to 512 MB of memory, a core clock of 375 MHz, DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1, first benchmarked on 2009-04-02. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

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Codename G71GLM

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The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M uses the G71GLM graphics processor.

Shader configuration

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Texture units (TMUs) 24

Render output units (ROPs) 16

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M 24 texture mapping units and 16 render output units.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M.

Clock speeds

Base clock 375 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M runs at a base clock of 375 MHz.

Memory

Size 512 MB

Type GDDR3

Bus width Not recorded

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The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M is equipped with 512 MB of GDDR3 memory.

Board and power

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M has a board power rating of 45 W and it connects over PCIe 1.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 45 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

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Bus interface PCIe 1.0 x16

Market

Launched April 18, 2006

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Segment Workstation

Series Quadro

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M was released on April 18, 2006.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 171

PassMark G2D 275

Rank #2,235

Samples 26

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M supports DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1.

DirectX 9.0c (stated by PassMark)

OpenGL 2.1

Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M.