NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI FirePro 2450 Multi-View

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 and ATI FirePro 2450 Multi-View 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 GTX 970

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 75% higher core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 22.7x more texture fill rate: 109 billion / sec vs 4.8 GTexel / s
  • 20.8x more pipelines: 1664 vs 80
  • 40.8x better floating-point performance: 3,920 gflops vs 96 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
  • 189.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9646 vs 51
  • Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 773 vs 482
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 September 2014 vs 1 January 2009
Core clock speed 1050 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 109 billion / sec vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1664 vs 80
Floating-point performance 3,920 gflops vs 96 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 9646 vs 51
PassMark - G2D Mark 773 vs 482

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro 2450 Multi-View

  • 4.6x lower typical power consumption: 32 Watt vs 148 Watt
  • 171.4x more memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 32 Watt vs 148 Watt
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU 2: ATI FirePro 2450 Multi-View

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
9646
51
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
773
482
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 ATI FirePro 2450 Multi-View
PassMark - G3D Mark 9646 51
PassMark - G2D Mark 773 482
Geekbench - OpenCL 26971
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 105.107
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1225.96
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.76
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 35.714
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 489.884
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3622

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 ATI FirePro 2450 Multi-View

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 TeraScale
Code name GM204 RV620
Launch date 19 September 2014 1 January 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $329
Place in performance rating 357 322
Price now $407.76
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 28.59

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1178 MHz
Core clock speed 1050 MHz 600 MHz
CUDA cores 1664
Floating-point performance 3,920 gflops 96 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 98 °C
Pipelines 1664 80
Texture fill rate 109 billion / sec 4.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 148 Watt 32 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 181 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2 1x VHDCI
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm) 170 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt
SLI options 4x
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pins None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.1
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB / s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 7.0 GB/s 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround