GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 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 375W)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450

601

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 +79%

1078

GeForce GTS 450

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GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 400

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

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

16

192

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

48

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

106W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

GF100

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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