NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs ATI FireMV 2400 PCIe x1

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 945A and ATI FireMV 2400 PCIe x1 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 FireMV 2400 PCIe x1

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 945A

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 2 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 500 MHz
14.1x more texture fill rate: 28.22 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 716 vs 283
168.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1852 vs 11

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 1 January 2008
Core clock speed	1072 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	28.22 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	716 vs 283
PassMark - G3D Mark	1852 vs 11

Reasons to consider the ATI FireMV 2400 PCIe x1

Around 65% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 33 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 33 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 945A
GPU 2: ATI FireMV 2400 PCIe x1

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

716

283

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1852

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 945A	ATI FireMV 2400 PCIe x1
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	283
PassMark - G3D Mark	1852	11

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 945A	ATI FireMV 2400 PCIe x1
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Rage 9
Code name	GM108	RV380
Launch date	13 March 2015	1 January 2008
Place in performance rating	597	595
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz
Core clock speed	1072 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	903.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	28.22 GTexel / s	2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count		75 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x VHDCI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x1
Length		170 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0b
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3