GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon R7 260X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X 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 115W)

Radeon R7 260X Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450

601

Radeon R7 260X +227%

1971

GeForce GTS 450

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

902 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

896

32

TMUs

56

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

17.60 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

115W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Bonaire

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX

(215-0839097)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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