GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce GTX 680

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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 195W)

GeForce GTX 680 Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450

601

GeForce GTX 680 +440%

3250

GeForce GTS 450

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

902 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1536

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

195W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

GK104

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

2.1

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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