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 1.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 22.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot 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.

General info

Some basic facts about GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance 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 (11 years ago)

Technical specs

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 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	783 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	1,170 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	106 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	18.79	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	451.0 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and 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

Memory

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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	22.4 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

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 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

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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