GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTS 450

GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060
GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    819%
  • GeForce GTS 450
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 719% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

The GeForce GTX 1060 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTS 450
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-400-A1)vsGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)
Fab Process16 nmvs40 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders1280vs192
Compute Units10vs4
Core clock1506 MHzvs783 MHz
ROPs48vs16
TMUs80vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTS 450
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTS 450
TDP120 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date10 Jul 2016vs13 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    17380
  • GeForce GTS 450
    2120

Points (higher is better)