NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 vs ATI Radeon HD 2950 PRO

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 ATI Radeon HD 2950 PRO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2950 PRO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

ATI Radeon HD 2950 PRO 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 +17%

0.451 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2950 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

VS

Radeon HD 2950 PRO

Graphics Card

Jul 2012

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

3

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

144

Shading Units

320

24

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.698 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

18.79 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

451.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

37.58 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

RV670

GF116-200-KA-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO ES (215-0708001)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

106W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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