GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce RTX 3060

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 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 170W)

GeForce RTX 3060 Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

3392 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450

601

GeForce RTX 3060 +2019%

12740

GeForce GTS 450

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

902 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

28

192

Shading Units

3584

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

GA106

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

12 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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