GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon HD 6850
Summary
GeForce GTS 450
100%
Radeon HD 6850
179%
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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 Radeon HD 6850 |
| Around 79% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6850
The Radeon HD 6850 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTS 450 | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1) | vs | Barts (Barts PRO) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 238 mm² | vs | 255 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,170 million | vs | 1,700 million |
| Shaders | 192 | vs | 960 |
| Compute Units | 4 | vs | 12 |
| Core clock | 783 MHz | vs | 775 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTS 450 | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 902 MHz
3608 MHz effective | vs | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTS 450 | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
|---|
| TDP | 106 watts | vs | 127 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Sep 2010 | vs | 21 Oct 2010 |
GeForce GTS 450
6.26 GP/s
Radeon HD 6850
24.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTS 450
25.10 GT/s
Radeon HD 6850
37.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTS 450
57.70 GB/s
Radeon HD 6850
128.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTS 450
601.30 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6850
1488.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTS 450
2120
Radeon HD 6850
3810
Points (higher is better)