GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce GTS 450

GeForce GTX 960M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 960M
GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    250%
  • GeForce GTS 450
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 150% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 960M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960M

The GeForce GTX 960M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 960MGeForce GTS 450
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)vsGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders640vs192
Compute Units5vs4
Core clock1097 MHzvs783 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 960MGeForce GTS 450
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 960MGeForce GTS 450
TDP75 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs13 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    17.55 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    43.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    80.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    1404.20 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    5320
  • GeForce GTS 450
    2120

Points (higher is better)