GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti

GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Oct 2012
GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTS 450
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    224%

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 650 Ti

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 124% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 650 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 650 Ti

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 650 Ti
GPU NameGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)vsGK106 (GK106-220-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders192vs768
Compute Units4vs4
Core clock783 MHzvs928 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 650 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
vs1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 650 Ti
TDP106 wattsvs110 watts
Release Date13 Sep 2010vs9 Oct 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    14.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    59.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    86.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    1425.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTS 450
    2120
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    4750

Points (higher is better)