NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs ATI FireGL V3100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 945A and ATI FireGL V3100 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: 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 945A

ATI FireGL V3100

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 945A

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 6 month(s) later
2.7x more core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 391 MHz
18x more texture fill rate: 28.22 GTexel / s vs 1.564 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
4.6x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 392 MHz
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 716 vs 275
34.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1852 vs 53

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 1 September 2004
Core clock speed	1072 MHz vs 391 MHz
Texture fill rate	28.22 GTexel / s vs 1.564 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 392 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	716 vs 275
PassMark - G3D Mark	1852 vs 53

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 945A
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V3100

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

716

275

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1852

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 945A	ATI FireGL V3100
Geekbench - OpenCL	32359
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	28.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	381.898
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.991
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	30.793
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	107.63
PassMark - G2D Mark	716	275
PassMark - G3D Mark	1852	53

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 945A	ATI FireGL V3100
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Rage 9
Code name	GM108	RV370
Launch date	13 March 2015	1 September 2004
Place in performance rating	604	607
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz
Core clock speed	1072 MHz	391 MHz
Floating-point performance	903.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	28.22 GTexel / s	1.564 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt
Transistor count		107 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	3.136 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	392 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR