Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GTS 450
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)
2624 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTS 450 's Advantages
Lower TDP (106W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+853%
5733
GeForce GTS 450
601
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Sep 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
902 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
57.73GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
2816
Shading Units
192
176
TMUs
32
64
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.264 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.06 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
601.3 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
50.11 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
106W
900 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GF106
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
GF106-250-KA-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
1.17 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
238 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
6.3
Shader Model
5.1