AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +870%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450

0.601 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce GTS 450

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Sep 2010

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

902 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

2304

Shading Units

192

144

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.264 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.06 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

601.3 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.11 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

106W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GF106

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

GF106-250-KA-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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