GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon RX 470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 120W)

Radeon RX 470 Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450

601

Radeon RX 470 +721%

4940

GeForce GTS 450

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 400

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

902 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO

(215-0876204)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

232 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

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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