GeForce GT 450 (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 460 1GB

Intro

The GeForce GT 450 (OEM) makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 790 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 144 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 460 1GB, which comes with a core clock speed of 675 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 336 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce GT 450 (OEM)	GeForce GTX 460 1GB
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	October 2010	July 2010
Code Name	GF106	GF104
Fab Process	40 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16	PCIe x16
Memory	1536 MB	1024 MB
Core Speed	790 MHz	675 MHz
Shader Speed	1580 MHz	1350 MHz
Memory Speed	1000 MHz	900 MHz
Unified Shaders	144	336
Texture Mapping Units	24	56
Render Output Units	24	32
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Bus Width	192-bit	256-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 11	DirectX 11
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.1	OpenGL 4.1
Power (Max TDP)	106 watts	160 watts
Shader Model	5.0	5.0
Bandwidth	96000 MB/sec	115200 MB/sec
Texel Rate	18960 Mtexels/sec	37800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	18960 Mpixels/sec	21600 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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