NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs ATI FirePro 2450 Multi-View

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 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 980

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 30x more texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 4.8 GTexel / s
  • 25.6x more pipelines: 2048 vs 80
  • 51.9x better floating-point performance: 4,981 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
  • 218.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11128 vs 51
  • Around 66% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 798 vs 482
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 September 2014 vs 1 January 2009
Texture fill rate 144 billion / sec vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 80
Floating-point performance 4,981 gflops vs 96 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 11128 vs 51
PassMark - G2D Mark 798 vs 482

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro 2450 Multi-View

  • 5.2x lower typical power consumption: 32 Watt vs 165 Watt
  • 171.4x more memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 32 Watt vs 165 Watt
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU 2: ATI FirePro 2450 Multi-View

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
11128
51
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
798
482
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 ATI FirePro 2450 Multi-View
PassMark - G3D Mark 11128 51
PassMark - G2D Mark 798 482
Geekbench - OpenCL 33393
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 110.006
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1348.307
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 9.194
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 37.443
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 477.015
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9566
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9566
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3335
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4330

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 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) $549
Place in performance rating 358 322
Price now $605.06
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 21.18

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1216 MHz
CUDA cores 2048
Floating-point performance 4,981 gflops 96 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 2048 80
Texture fill rate 144 billion / sec 4.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 Watt 32 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 181 million
Core clock speed 600 MHz

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
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support 1
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support
VGA аnalog display support 1

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 1
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pins None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.1
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.5 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
BatteryBoost
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
Surround