GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce GTX 690

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 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 300W)

GeForce GTX 690 Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1019MHz

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 690 +420%

3130

GeForce GTS 450

VS

GeForce GTX 690

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

May 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1019 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

32.61 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

130.4 GTexel/s

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.130 TFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

130.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

GK104

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-355-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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