NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM vs ATI FirePro V9800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM and ATI FirePro V9800 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, 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

ATI FirePro V9800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

2.4x lower typical power consumption: 106 Watt vs 250 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	106 Watt vs 250 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V9800

Around 9% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 783 MHz
3.6x more texture fill rate: 68.0 GTexel / s vs 18.96 GTexel / s
11.1x more pipelines: 1600 vs 144
6x better floating-point performance: 2,720.0 gflops vs 455.0 gflops
2.7x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1536 MB
Around 27% higher memory clock speed: 4600 MHz vs 3608 MHz

Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 783 MHz
Texture fill rate	68.0 GTexel / s vs 18.96 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1600 vs 144
Floating-point performance	2,720.0 gflops vs 455.0 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1536 MB
Memory clock speed	4600 MHz vs 3608 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM
GPU 2: ATI FirePro V9800

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM	ATI FirePro V9800
PassMark - G3D Mark		2727
PassMark - G2D Mark		655
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		9.718
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		738.1
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.867
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		27.153
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		118.756

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM	ATI FirePro V9800
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF106	Cypress
Launch date	13 September 2010	9 September 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$129	$3,499
Place in performance rating	not rated	628
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	783 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	455.0 gflops	2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	144	1600
Texture fill rate	18.96 GTexel / s	68.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	106 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	2,154 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA	6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	210 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.0 GB / s	147.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3608 MHz	4600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5