NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 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 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 3.1x more core clock speed: 1566 MHz vs 498 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 14.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1323 vs 91
  • Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 304 vs 260
  • 6.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3325 vs 511
  • 6.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3325 vs 511
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 September 2010 vs 10 September 2009
Core clock speed 1566 MHz vs 498 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1323 vs 91
PassMark - G2D Mark 304 vs 260
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3325 vs 511
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3325 vs 511

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1323
91
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
304
260
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3325
511
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3325
511
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark 1323 91
PassMark - G2D Mark 304 260
Geekbench - OpenCL 5032
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 511
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2160
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3365
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3325 511
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP

Essentials

Architecture Fermi TeraScale
Code name GF106 RS880
Launch date 13 September 2010 10 September 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $129
Place in performance rating 1144 1156
Price now $64.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 26.46

Technical info

Core clock speed 1566 MHz 498 MHz
CUDA cores 192
Floating-point performance 601.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 100 °C
Pipelines 192
Texture fill rate 25.1 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 106 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 181 million

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 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 8.25" (210 mm) (21 cm)
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.2 3.3

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

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI