GeForce GTS 450 OEM vs GeForce GTX 970

GeForce GTS 450 OEM
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2010
GeForce GTS 450 OEM
GeForce GTX 970
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Sep 2014
GeForce GTX 970
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTS 450 OEM
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 970
    742%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450 OEM

42 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 970 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 642% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 970

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970

The GeForce GTX 970 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 450 OEMGeForce GTX 970
GPU NameGF106 (GF106-250-KB-A1)vsGM204 (GM204-200-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs398 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs5,200 million
Shaders144vs1664
Compute Units3vs13
Core clock790 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs24vs56
TMUs24vs104

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 450 OEMGeForce GTX 970
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size1536 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 450 OEMGeForce GTX 970
TDP106 wattsvs148 watts
Release Date11 Oct 2010vs19 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450 OEM
    4.74 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    58.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450 OEM
    19.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    109.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 450 OEM
    96.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    224.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 450 OEM
    455.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 970
    3494.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTS 450 OEM
    2120
  • GeForce GTX 970
    15750

Points (higher is better)