Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce GTS 450

Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8
GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon Vega 8

41 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 450 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon Vega 8

HWBench recommends Radeon Vega 8

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon Vega 8GeForce GTS 450
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders512vs192
Compute Units8vs4
Core clock300 MHzvs783 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon Vega 8GeForce GTS 450
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs128 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Vega 8GeForce GTS 450
TDP65 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs13 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better