Radeon R7 450 OEM vs NVS 315

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1124not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.03no data
Power efficiency3.30no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGF119Cape Verde
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date10 March 2013 (11 years ago)30 June 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 no data

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 cores48512
Core clock speed523 MHz925 MHz
Number of transistors292 million1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate4.18429.60
Floating-point processing power0.1004 TFLOPS0.9472 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs832

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed875 MHz1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth14 GB/s72 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 Connectors1x DMS-591x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.16.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.1 (1.2)
VulkanN/A1.2.170
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 March 2013 30 June 2016
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 65 Watt

NVS 315 has 242.1% lower power consumption.

R7 450 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between NVS 315 and Radeon R7 450 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that NVS 315 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon R7 450 OEM is a desktop one.


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