GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 450 Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 120W)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450

601

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +554%

3935

GeForce GTS 450

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Dec 2016

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

902 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

9

192

Shading Units

1152

32

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

48

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

GP104

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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