NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (106W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

0.601 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +286%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 400

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

902 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

192

Shading Units

1600

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Hemlock

GF116-200-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

106W

TDP

294W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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