GeForce GTX 1660 vs GeForce GTS 450

GeForce GTX 1660
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2019
GeForce GTX 1660
GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1660

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1660

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1660

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660GeForce GTS 450
GPU NameTU116 ()vsGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)
Fab Process12 nmvs40 nm
Die Size284 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors6,600 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders1280vs192
Compute Units20vs4
Core clock1530 MHzvs783 MHz
ROPs48vs16
TMUs80vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660GeForce GTS 450
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vs902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1660GeForce GTS 450
TDP0 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date15 Mar 2019vs13 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660
    85.68 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660
    142.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1660
    192.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1660
    4570.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better