GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTS 450 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)
1520 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTS 450 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (106W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+769%
3920
GeForce GTS 450 OEM
451
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Sep 2010
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
902 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
57.73GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
3
1664
Shading Units
144
104
TMUs
24
56
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.698 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
18.79 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
451.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
37.58 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
106W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GF106
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
1.17 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
238 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
2.1
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
