Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce GTS 450

Radeon RX 6500 XT
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Jan 2022
Radeon RX 6500 XT
GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 6500 XT

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Infinity Cache allows to deliver up to 3.25x the effective memory bandwidth
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTS 450

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 450

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce GTS 450
GPU NameNavi 24 (Navi 24 XT)vsGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)
Fab Process6 nmvs40 nm
Die Size107 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors5,400 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders1024vs192
Compute Units16vs4
Core clock2200 MHzvs783 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs64vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce GTS 450
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
vs902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce GTS 450
TDP107 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date19 Jan 2022vs13 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    90.08 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    180.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    144.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    5765.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better