GeForce 940A vs GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
Summary
GeForce 940A
115%
GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce 940A |
| 73 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 450 DDR3 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 15% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 DDR3 |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce 940A
The GeForce 940A is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce 940A | | GeForce GTS 450 DDR3 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM108 (N16S-GT-S) | vs | GF116 (GF116-200-KA-A1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 0 mm² | vs | 238 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 1,170 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 144 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 3 |
| Core clock | 1029 MHz | vs | 783 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 940A | | GeForce GTS 450 DDR3 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective | vs | 700 MHz
1400 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 940A | | GeForce GTS 450 DDR3 | |
|---|
| TDP | 33 watts | vs | 106 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 11 Jul 2012 |
GeForce 940A
8.23 GP/s
GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
4.70 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 940A
16.46 GT/s
GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
18.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 940A
16.02 GB/s
GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
22.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 940A
790.30 GFLOPs
GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
451.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce 940A
2450
GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
2120
Points (higher is better)