GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce GTX 560

GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450
GeForce GTX 560
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2011
GeForce GTX 560

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTS 450
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 560
    187%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450

44 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 560 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560

Around 87% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 560

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 560

The GeForce GTX 560 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 560
GPU NameGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)vsGF114 (GF114-325-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders192vs336
Compute Units4vs7
Core clock783 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs32vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 560
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 560
TDP106 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date13 Sep 2010vs17 May 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 560
    11.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 560
    45.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 560
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 560
    1089.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTS 450
    2120
  • GeForce GTX 560
    3980

Points (higher is better)