GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs GeForce GTS 450

GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Jan 2009
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    139%
  • GeForce GTS 450
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

Around 39% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

98 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 285 Mac Edition

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

The GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 285 Mac EditionGeForce GTS 450
GPU NameGT200B (G200-350-B3)vsGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size470 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders240vs192
Compute Units10vs4
Core clock648 MHzvs783 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs80vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 285 Mac EditionGeForce GTS 450
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width512 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1242 MHz
2484 MHz effective
vs902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 285 Mac EditionGeForce GTS 450
TDP204 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date15 Jan 2009vs13 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    20.70 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    51.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    159.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    708.50 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    2950
  • GeForce GTS 450
    2120

Points (higher is better)