GeForce GTS 450 and Radeon HD 8590M - video card comparison

GeForce GTS 450

Radeon HD 8590M

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

GF106

Sun

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

September 2010

November 2012

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0 x 16

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

825 MHz

Core clock speed

783 MHz

620 MHz

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

601.3 gflops

528.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,170 million

690 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

384

Power consumption (TDP)

106 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

100 °C

-

Texture fill rate

25.1 billion/sec

16.50

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1804 (3608 data rate) MHz

4500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.7 GB/s

36 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (11_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.2

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131