GeForce GTS 450 vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare that to the Geforce GTX 760, which features GPU core speed of 980 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1502 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1152 Stream Processors, 96 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
GeForce GTS 450		1453 points
	Difference: 4470 (308%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTS 450		106 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 64 Watts (60%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 760 should be 233% quicker than the GeForce GTS 450 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
GeForce GTS 450		57728 MB/sec
	Difference: 134528 (233%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is quite a bit (more or less 275%) better at AF than the GeForce GTS 450. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTS 450		25056 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 69024 (275%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is superior to the GeForce GTS 450, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTS 450		12528 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18832 (150%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.