RTX A2000 vs GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

Place in the ranking	666	140
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	85.12
Power efficiency	2.87	34.93
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GF116	GA106
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	15 March 2011 (13 years ago)	10 August 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$449

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	192	3328
Core clock speed	783 MHz	562 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1200 MHz
Number of transistors	1,170 million	12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	106 Watt	70 Watt
Texture fill rate	25.06	124.8
Floating-point processing power	0.6013 TFLOPS	7.987 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	48
TMUs	32	104
Tensor Cores	no data	104
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	26

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	210 mm	167 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	902 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	57.73 GB/s	288.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.8
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	2.1	8.6

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	10−12 −840%	94 +840%
1440p	5−6 −780%	44 +780%
4K	3−4 −833%	28 +833%

Cost per frame, $

1080p	no data	4.78
1440p	no data	10.20
4K	no data	16.04

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	4.43	35.55
Recency	15 March 2011	10 August 2021
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	106 Watt	70 Watt

RTX A2000 has a 702.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 400% more advanced lithography process, and 51.4% lower power consumption.

The RTX A2000 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 is a desktop card while RTX A2000 is a workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.