GeForce GTS 450 DDR3 vs Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Jul 2012
GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Aug 2012
Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450 DDR3

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 450 DDR3Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
GPU NameGF116 (GF116-200-KA-A1)vsCypress (Cypress PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders144vs1440
Compute Units3vs18
Core clock783 MHzvs725 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs24vs72

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 450 DDR3Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 450 DDR3Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
TDP106 wattsvs151 watts
Release Date11 Jul 2012vs21 Aug 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
    4.70 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
    23.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
    18.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
    52.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
    22.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
    451.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
    2088.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better