GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce GTX 950

GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450
GeForce GTX 950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Aug 2015
GeForce GTX 950

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTS 450
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 950
    400%

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 950

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 300% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 950

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950

The GeForce GTX 950 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 950
GPU NameGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)vsGM206 (GM206-250-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs2,940 million
Shaders192vs768
Compute Units4vs6
Core clock783 MHzvs1024 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs32vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 950
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
vs1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GTX 950
TDP106 wattsvs90 watts
Release Date13 Sep 2010vs20 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    32.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    49.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    105.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 950
    1572.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTS 450
    2120
  • GeForce GTX 950
    8490

Points (higher is better)