GeForce GTX 950 LP vs GeForce GTS 450

GeForce GTX 950 LP
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2016
GeForce GTX 950 LP
GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    400%
  • GeForce GTS 450
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950 LP

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 300% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 950 LP

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950 LP

The GeForce GTX 950 LP is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950 LPGeForce GTS 450
GPU NameGM206 (GM206-251-A1)vsGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size228 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors2,940 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders768vs192
Compute Units6vs4
Core clock1024 MHzvs783 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs48vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950 LPGeForce GTS 450
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
vs902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950 LPGeForce GTS 450
TDP75 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date14 May 2016vs13 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    32.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    49.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    105.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    1572.90 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    8490
  • GeForce GTS 450
    2120

Points (higher is better)