NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 vs AMD FirePro M6000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 and AMD FirePro M6000 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

AMD FirePro M6000

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M6000

Around 2% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 783 MHz
Around 70% higher texture fill rate: 32 GTexel / s vs 18.79 GTexel / s
4.4x more pipelines: 640 vs 144
2.3x better floating-point performance: 1,024 gflops vs 451.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2.5x lower typical power consumption: 43 Watt vs 106 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
2.9x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 783 MHz
Texture fill rate	32 GTexel / s vs 18.79 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 144
Floating-point performance	1,024 gflops vs 451.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	43 Watt vs 106 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3
GPU 2: AMD FirePro M6000

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3	AMD FirePro M6000
Geekbench - OpenCL		8095
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3024
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3024
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1832
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1832
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3357
PassMark - G2D Mark		776
PassMark - G3D Mark		1820

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3	AMD FirePro M6000
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GF116	Heathrow
Launch date	11 July 2012	1 July 2012
Place in performance rating	not rated	528
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	783 MHz	800 MHz
Floating-point performance	451.0 gflops	1,024 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	144	640
Texture fill rate	18.79 GTexel / s	32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	106 Watt	43 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	1,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	No outputs
StereoOutput3D
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	210 mm
Bus support		n / a
Form factor		MXM-B
Laptop size		medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	22.4 GB / s	72 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory		0