GeForce GTS 450 and GeForce FX 5900 XT - video card comparison

GeForce GTS 450

GeForce FX 5900 XT

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

GF106

NV35

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

September 2010

May 2003

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0 x 16

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin

1x Molex

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

783 MHz

400 MHz

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

601.3 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

1,170 million

135 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

-

Power consumption (TDP)

106 Watt

35 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

100 °C

-

Texture fill rate

25.1 billion/sec

3.200

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

128 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1804 (3608 data rate) MHz

700 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.7 GB/s

22.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

9.0a

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.2

1.5 (2.1)

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A