GeForce GTS 450 and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 450
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
GF106
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2010
November 2015
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0 x 16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1201 MHz
Core clock speed
783 MHz
924 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
601.3 gflops
2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
106 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
25.1 billion/sec
76.86
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1804 (3608 data rate) MHz
7012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.7 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
5.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126