GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce 9800 GTX

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 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 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (106W vs 141W)

GeForce 9800 GTX Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (70.40GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450 +27%

601

GeForce 9800 GTX

470

GeForce GTS 450

VS

GeForce 9800 GTX

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jan 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

1100 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

16

192

Shading Units

128

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

106W

TDP

141W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI
1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

G92B

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

G92-420-B1

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

260 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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