GeForce GTX 280 vs GeForce GTS 450

GeForce GTX 280
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 280
GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 280
    131%
  • GeForce GTS 450
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 280

Around 31% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450

130 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 280 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 280

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 280

The GeForce GTX 280 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 280GeForce GTS 450
GPU NameGT200 (G200-302-A2)vsGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size576 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders240vs192
Compute Units10vs4
Core clock602 MHzvs783 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs80vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 280GeForce GTS 450
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width512 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1107 MHz
2214 MHz effective
vs902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 280GeForce GTS 450
TDP236 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date16 Jun 2008vs13 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 280
    19.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 280
    48.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 280
    142.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 280
    622.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 280
    2780
  • GeForce GTS 450
    2120

Points (higher is better)