GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 450 Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.73GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (106W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450 +116%

601

GeForce 9600 GTX

278

GeForce GTS 450

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

May 2009

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

902 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

12

192

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

106W

TDP

140W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI
1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

G92

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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