NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

5696 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +3279%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450

0.601 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce GTS 450

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

902 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

192

184

TMUs

32

96

ROPs

16

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.264 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.06 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

601.3 GFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.11 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GF106

GA104-300-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

220W

TDP

106W

550 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

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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