GeForce GTS 450 OEM vs Radeon R7 260X

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking507not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.58no data
Power efficiency4.94no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameBonaireGF106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date8 October 2013 (11 years ago)11 October 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$139 $129

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 cores896144
Core clock speedno data790 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,080 million1,170 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt106 Watt
Texture fill rate61.6018.96
Floating-point processing power1.971 TFLOPS0.455 TFLOPS
ROPs1624
TMUs5624

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length170 mm210 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pin1x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB1536 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth104 GB/s96 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Eyefinity+-
HDMI++

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 (11_0)
Shader Model6.35.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 October 2013 11 October 2010
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1536 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 106 Watt

R7 260X has an age advantage of 2 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

GTS 450 OEM, on the other hand, has 8.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 260X and GeForce GTS 450 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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