AMD FirePro W4300 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro W4300 and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD FirePro W4300

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W4300

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 94% higher core clock speed: 930 MHz vs 480 MHz
Around 87% higher texture fill rate: 44.64 GTexel / s vs 2x 3.84 GTexel / s billion / sec
48x more pipelines: 768 vs 2x 8
37.2x better floating-point performance: 1,428 gflops vs 2x 19.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2x 256 MB
4.3x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1400 MHz
42.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2818 vs 67
7.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 659 vs 89

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 December 2015 vs 11 November 2008
Core clock speed	930 MHz vs 480 MHz
Texture fill rate	44.64 GTexel / s vs 2x 3.84 GTexel / s billion / sec
Pipelines	768 vs 2x 8
Floating-point performance	1,428 gflops vs 2x 19.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2x 256 MB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2818 vs 67
PassMark - G2D Mark	659 vs 89

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro W4300
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2818

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

659

Name	AMD FirePro W4300	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450
PassMark - G3D Mark	2818	67
PassMark - G2D Mark	659	89
Geekbench - OpenCL	10312
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	31.528
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	828.57
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.985
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	59.153
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	152.484
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3572
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	6161
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	17597
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3572
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	6161
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	17597

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD FirePro W4300	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Tesla
Code name	Bonaire	G98
Launch date	1 December 2015	11 November 2008
Place in performance rating	416	1420
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$163.14
Price now		$168
Value for money (0-100)		0.71
Technical info
Core clock speed	930 MHz	480 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,428 gflops	2x 19.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	768	2x 8
Texture fill rate	44.64 GTexel / s	2x 3.84 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	2,080 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort	4x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	171 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2x 256 MB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB / s	2x 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	2x 64 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3