NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 5.2x more core clock speed: 1566 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • 96x more pipelines: 192 vs 2
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
  • 164.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1317 vs 8
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 304 vs 143
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 September 2010 vs 1 May 2003
Core clock speed 1566 MHz vs 300 MHz
Pipelines 192 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1317 vs 8
PassMark - G2D Mark 304 vs 143

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1317
8
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
304
143
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark 1317 8
PassMark - G2D Mark 304 143
Geekbench - OpenCL 4923
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 14.758
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 302.509
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.965
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 14.925
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 27.656
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2160
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3365
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3325
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2160
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3365
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3325
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Rage 7
Code name GF106 RS300
Launch date 13 September 2010 1 May 2003
Launch price (MSRP) $129
Place in performance rating 1144 1147
Price now $64.99
Type Desktop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 26.46

Technical info

Core clock speed 1566 MHz 300 MHz
CUDA cores 192
Floating-point performance 601.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 150 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 100 °C
Pipelines 192 2
Texture fill rate 25.1 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 106 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 76 million
Boost clock speed 300 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 AGP 8x
Length 8.25" (210 mm) (21 cm)
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 8.1
OpenGL 4.2 1.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 57.7 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1804 (3608 data rate) MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI