GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 vs Radeon E8860

Place in the ranking	664	661
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	8.18	2.88
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Venus	GF116
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	25 January 2014 (10 years ago)	15 March 2011 (13 years ago)

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	640	192
Core clock speed	575 MHz	783 MHz
Boost clock speed	625 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	1,500 million	1,170 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	37 Watt	106 Watt
Texture fill rate	25.00	25.06
Floating-point processing power	0.8 TFLOPS	0.6013 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	16
TMUs	40	32

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 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	no data	210 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 6-pin

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	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz	902 MHz
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	57.73 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	4x mini-DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A
CUDA	-	2.1

Gaming performance

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

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	4.37	4.41
Recency	25 January 2014	15 March 2011
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	37 Watt	106 Watt

Radeon E8860 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 186.5% lower power consumption.

GTS 450 Rev. 2, on the other hand, has a 0.9% higher aggregate performance score.

Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between Radeon E8860 and GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2.

Be aware that Radeon E8860 is a notebook card while GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 is a desktop one.

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