GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon HD 8490 OEM

GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450
Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jul 2013
Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8490 OEM

71 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.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTS 450

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 450

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 450Radeon HD 8490 OEM
GPU NameGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)vsCaicos (Caicos XTX)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs370 million
Shaders192vs160
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock783 MHzvs875 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs32vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 450Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 450Radeon HD 8490 OEM
TDP106 wattsvs35 watts
Release Date13 Sep 2010vs23 Jul 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    3.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    7.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    280.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better