GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce GTX 750 Ti

GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450
GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 750 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTS 450
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    264%

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 750 Ti

46 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.
Around 164% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 750 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 750 Ti

The GeForce GTX 750 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 750 Ti
GPU NameGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)vsGM107 (GM107-400-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders192vs640
Compute Units4vs5
Core clock783 MHzvs1020 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
vs1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 750 Ti
TDP106 wattsvs60 watts
Release Date13 Sep 2010vs18 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    16.32 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    40.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    86.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    1305.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTS 450
    2120
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    5610

Points (higher is better)