NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM 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

Lower TDP (106W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1904 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

0.451 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM +808%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

VS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2012

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

3

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

144

Shading Units

2048

24

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.698 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

18.79 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

451.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

37.58 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Malta

GF116-200-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Malta XT (215-0849026)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

365 mm²

Board Design

106W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

-

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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