GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTS 450
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    117%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Around 17% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 550 Ti

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPU NameGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)vsGF116 (GF116-400-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders192vs192
Compute Units4vs4
Core clock783 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs16vs24
TMUs32vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
vs1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 550 Ti
TDP106 wattsvs116 watts
Release Date13 Sep 2010vs15 Mar 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTS 450
    2120
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    2490

Points (higher is better)