GeForce GT 450 (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Intro

The GeForce GT 450 (OEM) comes with a clock speed of 790 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 144 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 24 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216, which comes with GPU clock speed of 576 MHz, and 896 MB of GDDR3 memory running at 999 MHz through a 448-bit bus. It also is made up of 216 Stream Processors, 72 TAUs, and 28 ROPs.

Price Comparison

Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords, and might not be the exact same card listed on this page. We have no control over the accuracy of their search results.

GeForce GT 450 (OEM) Amazon.com Other US-based stores Amazon.co.uk Amazon.de Amazon.fr

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Amazon.com Other US-based stores Amazon.co.uk Amazon.de Amazon.fr

Specifications

Model	GeForce GT 450 (OEM)	GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	October 2010	September 16, 2008
Code Name	GF106	G200
Fab Process	40 nm	65 nm
Bus	PCIe x16	PCIe x16 2.0
Memory	1536 MB	896 MB
Core Speed	790 MHz	576 MHz
Shader Speed	1580 MHz	1242 MHz
Memory Speed	1000 MHz	999 MHz
Unified Shaders	144	216
Texture Mapping Units	24	72
Render Output Units	24	28
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Bus Width	192-bit	448-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 11	DirectX 10
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.1	OpenGL 3.1
Power (Max TDP)	106 watts	202 watts
Shader Model	5.0	4.0
Bandwidth	96000 MB/sec	111888 MB/sec
Texel Rate	18960 Mtexels/sec	41472 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	18960 Mpixels/sec	16128 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past 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 type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. 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 many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.