NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 950 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 +203%

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450

0.601 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

GeForce GTS 450

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

902 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

192

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.264 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.06 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

601.3 GFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.11 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GF106

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

GF106-250-KA-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

106W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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