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GeForce GT 450 (OEM) vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

The GeForce GT 450 (OEM) has a GPU core clock speed of 790 MHz, and the 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 144 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 24 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1425 MHz on this specific card. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 450 (OEM) 106 Watts
Radeon R9 380 2G 190 Watts
Difference: 84 Watts (79%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 380 2G should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 450 (OEM) overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G 182400 MB/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM) 96000 MB/sec
Difference: 86400 (90%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 2G should be quite a bit (about 473%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 450 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G 108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM) 18960 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 89680 (473%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 2G will be a lot (about 64%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GT 450 (OEM), and also able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G 31040 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM) 18960 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 12080 (64%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 450 (OEM) Radeon R9 380 2G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 June 2015
Code Name GF106 Antigua PRO
Memory 1536 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 790 MHz 970 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 106 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 96000 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 18960 Mtexels/sec 108640 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 18960 Mpixels/sec 31040 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 144 1792
Texture Mapping Units 24 112
Render Output Units 24 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1170 million 5000 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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

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GeForce GT 450 (OEM)

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Radeon R9 380 2G

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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