Radeon E8950 and GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 - video card comparison
Radeon E8950
GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Amethyst
GF116
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2015
March 2011
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
735 MHz
783 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
601.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,000 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
192
Power consumption (TDP)
95 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
25.06
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
3608 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
57.73 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A