GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon R9 285

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

AMD Radeon R9 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 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 190W)

Radeon R9 285 Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450

601

Radeon R9 285 +447%

3290

GeForce GTS 450

VS

Radeon R9 285

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

902 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1792

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.38 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.290 TFLOPS

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.290 TFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

205.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

190W

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

Tonga

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Tonga PRO

(215-0851128)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

5 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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