NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 vs NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 and NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro 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 9 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 7.8x more core clock speed: 1566 MHz vs 200 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 180 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
  • 3.6x more memory clock speed: 1804 (3608 data rate) MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 1322x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1322 vs 1
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 304 vs 143
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 September 2010 vs 22 March 2001
Core clock speed 1566 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 1804 (3608 data rate) MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1322 vs 1
PassMark - G2D Mark 304 vs 143

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro

  • 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: NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1322
1
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
304
143
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro
PassMark - G3D Mark 1322 1
PassMark - G2D Mark 304 143
Geekbench - OpenCL 4926
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 NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Celsius
Code name GF106 NV15 A4
Launch date 13 September 2010 22 March 2001
Launch price (MSRP) $129
Place in performance rating 1144 1147
Price now $64.99
Type Desktop Workstation
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 180 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 100 °C
Pipelines 192
Texture fill rate 25.1 billion / sec 800 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 106 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 25 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
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 4x
Length 8.25" (210 mm) (21 cm)
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 7.0
OpenGL 4.2 1.2

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 57.7 GB / s 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1804 (3608 data rate) MHz 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI