GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 and GeForce 9600 GSO 512 - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GF116
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
October 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
6-pin
SLI options
-
2-way
Core clock speed
783 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
601.3 gflops
156 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
48
Power consumption (TDP)
106 Watt
90 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
25.06
15.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3608 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.73 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Two Dual Link DVIHDTV
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
2.1
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A