NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 945A and ATI Radeon X1600 PRO 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 Radeon X1600 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 945A

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 5 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 90 nm
Around 24% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 41 Watt
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 780 MHz
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 716 vs 273
18.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1852 vs 99

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 1 October 2007
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 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 41 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 780 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	716 vs 273
PassMark - G3D Mark	1852 vs 99

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 945A
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

716

273

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1852

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 945A	ATI Radeon X1600 PRO
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	273
PassMark - G3D Mark	1852	99

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 945A	ATI Radeon X1600 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	R500
Code name	GM108	RV530
Launch date	13 March 2015	1 October 2007
Place in performance rating	604	606
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
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	90 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	28.22 GTexel / s	2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	41 Watt
Transistor count		157 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	12.48 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	780 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3