NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 590 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +106%

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450

0.601 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce GTS 450

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

902 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

4

512

Shading Units

192

64

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.264 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.06 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

601.3 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.11 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

106W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GF106

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

GF106-250-KA-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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