GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 450 Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Lower TDP (106W vs 182W)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450 +25%

601

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

477

GeForce GTS 450

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

902 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

24

192

Shading Units

192

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

182W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

GT200B

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-B3

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

470 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

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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