GeForce GTS 450 and Quadro NVS 440 PCIe x1 - video card comparison

GeForce GTS 450

Quadro NVS 440 PCIe x1

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

GF106

NV43

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

September 2010

February 2006

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0 x 16

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x1

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin

None

SLI options

Core clock speed

783 MHz

250 MHz

CUDA cores

192

Floating-point performance

601.3 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

1,170 million

146 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

Power consumption (TDP)

106 Watt

31 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

100 °C

Texture fill rate

25.1 billion/sec

2.000

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

128 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1804 (3608 data rate) MHz

500 MBps

Memory bandwidth

57.7 GB/s

8 GB/s

Display Connectors

Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI

2x DMS-59

HDMI

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

DirectX

12 (11_0)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.2

2.0 (full) Shader Model5.13.0

Vulkan

N/A