GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

AMD Radeon 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 450 Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.73GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

Radeon 550 Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450

601

Radeon 550 +101%

1211

GeForce GTS 450

VS

Radeon 550

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 400

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

902 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

56.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Lexa

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO

(215-0904018)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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