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GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon R9 M395X

Intro

The GeForce GTS 450 uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 783 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 902 MHz on this model. It features 192 SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M395X, which features GPU clock speed of 723 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTS 450 106 Watts
Radeon R9 M395X 125 Watts
Difference: 19 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 M395X should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTS 450 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X 160000 MB/sec
GeForce GTS 450 57728 MB/sec
Difference: 102272 (177%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M395X will be quite a bit (more or less 269%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTS 450. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X 92544 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTS 450 25056 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 67488 (269%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M395X is superior to the GeForce GTS 450, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X 23136 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTS 450 12528 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 10608 (85%)

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 GTS 450 Radeon R9 M395X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2010 2015
Code Name GF106 Tonga
Memory 512 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 783 MHz 723 MHz
Memory Speed 3608 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 106 watts 125 watts
Bandwidth 57728 MB/sec 160000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 25056 Mtexels/sec 92544 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 12528 Mpixels/sec 23136 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 192 2048
Texture Mapping Units 32 128
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1170 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTS 450

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Radeon R9 M395X

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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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