NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450

0.601 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X +347%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

902 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

-

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

180W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Curacao

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

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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