NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 6 month(s) later
7.8x more core clock speed: 1566 MHz vs 200 MHz
48x more pipelines: 192 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 32 MB
3.9x more memory clock speed: 1804 (3608 data rate) MHz vs 460 MHz
439x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1317 vs 3
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 309 vs 145

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 September 2010 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	1566 MHz vs 200 MHz
Pipelines	192 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	1804 (3608 data rate) MHz vs 460 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1317 vs 3
PassMark - G2D Mark	309 vs 145

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

31.9x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 25.1 billion / sec

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 25.1 billion / sec

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1317

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

309

145

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450	ATI Mobility Radeon 9200
PassMark - G3D Mark	1317	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	309	145
Geekbench - OpenCL	4937
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 9200
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Rage 7
Code name	GF106	M9+
Launch date	13 September 2010	1 March 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$129
Place in performance rating	1139	1141
Price now	$64.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	26.46
Technical info
Core clock speed	1566 MHz	200 MHz
CUDA cores	192
Floating-point performance	601.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	100 °C
Pipelines	192	4
Texture fill rate	25.1 billion / sec	800 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	106 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	36 million
Boost clock speed		250 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
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	8.1
OpenGL	4.2	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	57.7 GB / s	14.72 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	1804 (3608 data rate) MHz	460 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	128
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI