GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 and Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 - video card comparison

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Architecture

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

GF116

Tahiti

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2011

January 2012

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Core clock speed

783 MHz

925 MHz

Floating-point performance

601.3 gflops

2,842 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,170 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

1536

Power consumption (TDP)

106 Watt

185 Watt

Texture fill rate

25.06

88.80

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

3608 MHz

5000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.73 GB/s

240.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (11_1)

CUDA

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131