NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (106W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280 +3%

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450

0.601 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce GTS 450

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

902 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

192

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.264 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.06 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

601.3 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.11 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GF106

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

GF106-250-KA-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

106W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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