NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo 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: 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 783 MHz vs 337 MHz
18.6x more texture fill rate: 25.06 GTexel / s vs 1.348 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
7.4x more memory clock speed: 3608 MHz vs 486 MHz

Launch date	15 March 2011 vs 13 February 2004
Core clock speed	783 MHz vs 337 MHz
Texture fill rate	25.06 GTexel / s vs 1.348 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	3608 MHz vs 486 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	12.611
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	422.002
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.255
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	25.132
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	49.9
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2166
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3313
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2166
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3313
PassMark - G3D Mark		25
PassMark - G2D Mark		137

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Rage 8
Code name	GF116	M10
Launch date	15 March 2011	13 February 2004
Place in performance rating	1181	1183
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	783 MHz	337 MHz
Floating-point performance	601.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	192
Texture fill rate	25.06 GTexel / s	1.348 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	106 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	76 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	210 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	57.7 GB / s	7.78 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3608 MHz	486 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR