GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTS 450

GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1050

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GTS 450
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders640vs192
Compute Units5vs4
Core clock1354 MHzvs783 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs40vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GTS 450
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GTS 450
TDP75 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs13 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better