NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM vs ATI FirePro V9800P

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM and ATI FirePro V9800P videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

ATI FirePro V9800P

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

2.1x lower typical power consumption: 106 Watt vs 225 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	106 Watt vs 225 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V9800P

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 specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM	ATI FirePro V9800P
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF106	Cypress
Launch date	13 September 2010	9 September 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$129	$2,499
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
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	225 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	2,154 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA	1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	210 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	2x 6-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