GeForce GTS 450 OEM vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

GeForce GTS 450 OEM
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2010
GeForce GTS 450 OEM
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTS 450 OEM
    115%
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450 OEM

Around 15% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 450 OEM

The GeForce GTS 450 OEM is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 450 OEMRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameGF106 (GF106-250-KB-A1)vsOland ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders144vs320
Compute Units3vs5
Core clock790 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs24vs8
TMUs24vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 450 OEMRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1536 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 450 OEMRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP106 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date11 Oct 2010vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450 OEM
    4.74 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450 OEM
    19.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 450 OEM
    96.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 450 OEM
    455.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTS 450 OEM
    2120
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    1830

Points (higher is better)