GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce GTX 770

GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450
GeForce GTX 770
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 May 2013
GeForce GTX 770

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTS 450
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 770
    527%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450

124 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 770 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 770

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 427% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 770

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 770

The GeForce GTX 770 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 770
GPU NameGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)vsGK104 (GK104-425-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders192vs1536
Compute Units4vs8
Core clock783 MHzvs1046 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs32vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 770
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 770
TDP106 wattsvs230 watts
Release Date13 Sep 2010vs30 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 770
    33.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 770
    134.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 770
    224.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 770
    3213.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTS 450
    2120
  • GeForce GTX 770
    11180

Points (higher is better)