GeForce GTS 450 and Radeon R9 285X - video card comparison

GeForce GTS 450

Radeon R9 285X

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)

GPU code name

GF106

Tonga

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

September 2010

-

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0 x 16

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

783 MHz

1002 MHz

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

601.3 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,170 million

5,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

106 Watt

200 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

100 °C

-

Texture fill rate

25.1 billion/sec

128.3

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

1804 (3608 data rate) MHz

5.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

57.7 GB/s

264.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI

2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2

HDMI

+

+

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.1

OpenGL

4.2

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.170