GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTS 450
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    219%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Around 119% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 560 Ti

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 560 Ti
GPU NameGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)vsGF114 (GF114-400-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders192vs384
Compute Units4vs8
Core clock783 MHzvs823 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs32vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
vs1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 560 Ti
TDP106 wattsvs170 watts
Release Date13 Sep 2010vs25 Jan 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

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

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTS 450
    2120
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    4660

Points (higher is better)