NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

2624 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450

0.601 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +837%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

902 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

2816

32

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

580W

300 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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