GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce GT 430

GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450
GeForce GT 430
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2010
GeForce GT 430

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTS 450
    209%
  • GeForce GT 430
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450

Around 109% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GeForce GT 430

57 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 450 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTS 450

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 450

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GT 430
GPU NameGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)vsGF108 (GF108-300-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs585 million
Shaders192vs96
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock783 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs32vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GT 430
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GT 430
TDP106 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date13 Sep 2010vs11 Oct 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 430
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 430
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 430
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 430
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTS 450
    2120
  • GeForce GT 430
    1010

Points (higher is better)