GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
CORE STATE
GF106
VRAM
1024 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
106 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2010
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 590
CORE STATE
GF110
VRAM
1536 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
365 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi 2.0
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2011
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTS 450
GTX 590
Core Specs
Shading Units
192
512
+166.7%
Shaders
192
512
+166.7%
TMUs
32
64
+100.0%
ROPs
16
48
+200.0%
SM Count
4
16
+300.0%
Clocks
GPU Clock
783 MHz
608 MHz
Shader Clock
1566 MHz
1215 MHz
Memory Clock
902 MHz
3.6 Gbps effective
854 MHz
3.4 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
1024 MB
1536 MB
VRAM (MB)
1,024
1,536
+50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
57.73 GB/s
164.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
768 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
6.264 GPixel/s
19.46 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
25.06 GTexel/s
38.91 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
601.3 GFLOPS
1,244.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
50.11 GFLOPS (1:12)
155.5 GFLOPS (1:8)
Power
TDP
106 W
365 W
TDP (W)
106
365
+244.3%
Suggested PSU
300 W
750 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Fermi
Fermi 2.0
GPU Name
GF106
GF110
Generation
GeForce 400
GeForce 500
Process Size
40 nm
40 nm
Transistors
1,170 million
3,000 million
Die Size
238 mm²
520 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
4.9M / mm²
5.8M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
CUDA
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
210 mm
8.3 inches
279 mm
11 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
129 USD
699 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 200
GeForce 400
Successor
GeForce 500
GeForce 600