GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 375W)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

3904 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450

601

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +2081%

13110

GeForce GTS 450

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jul 2017

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1382 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

902 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

4096

32

TMUs

256

16

ROPs

64

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Vega 10

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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