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 680
CORE STATE
GK104
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1058 MHz
TDP
195 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTS 450
GTX 680
Core Specs
Shading Units
192
1,536
+700.0%
Shaders
192
1,536
+700.0%
TMUs
32
128
+300.0%
ROPs
16
32
+100.0%
SM Count
4
—
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1006 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1058 MHz
GPU Clock
783 MHz
—
Shader Clock
1566 MHz
—
Memory Clock
902 MHz
3.6 Gbps effective
1502 MHz
6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
1024 MB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
1,024
2,048
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
57.73 GB/s
192.3 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
256 KB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
6.264 GPixel/s
33.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
25.06 GTexel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
601.3 GFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
50.11 GFLOPS (1:12)
135.4 GFLOPS (1:24)
Power
TDP
106 W
195 W
TDP (W)
106
195
+84.0%
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Fermi
Kepler
GPU Name
GF106
GK104
Generation
GeForce 400
GeForce 600
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
1,170 million
3,540 million
Die Size
238 mm²
294 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
4.9M / mm²
12.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.2.175
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
CUDA
2.1
3.0
Shader Model
5.1
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
210 mm
8.3 inches
256 mm
10.1 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
129 USD
499 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 200
GeForce 500
Successor
GeForce 500
GeForce 700