NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 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 RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

3392 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +2019%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450

0.601 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GTS 450

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

902 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

192

112

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.264 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.06 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

601.3 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.11 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GF106

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GF106-250-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

106W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.1

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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