GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 sales 11 July 2012. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Fermi 2.0 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 1 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 0.7 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 22.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 210 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 106 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in the ranking | not rated | |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
Architecture | Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014) | |
GPU code name | GF116 | |
Market segment | Desktop | |
Release date | 11 July 2012 (13 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines / CUDA cores | 144 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
Core clock speed | 783 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
Number of transistors | 1,170 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
Power consumption (TDP) | 106 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
Texture fill rate | 18.79 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
Floating-point processing power | 0.451 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
ROPs | 16 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
TMUs | 24 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
L1 Cache | 192 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
L2 Cache | 256 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
Length | 210 mm | |
Width | 2-slot |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
Memory type | DDR3 | |
Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
Memory clock speed | 700 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
Memory bandwidth | 22.4 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI | |
HDMI | + |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
Shader Model | 5.1 | |
OpenGL | 4.6 | |
OpenCL | 1.1 | |
Vulkan | N/A | |
CUDA | 2.1 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 is Radeon R7 240.
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