GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce GT 720

GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450
GeForce GT 720
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Sep 2014
GeForce GT 720

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTS 450
    173%
  • GeForce GT 720
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450

Around 73% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 720

87 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 450 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 720
GPU NameGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvsunknown
Shaders192vs192
Compute Units4vs1
Core clock783 MHzvs797 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs32vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GT 720
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GT 720
TDP106 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date13 Sep 2010vs29 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    3.19 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.75 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 720
    306.05 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTS 450
    2120
  • GeForce GT 720
    1220

Points (higher is better)