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GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce GTX 965M

Intro

The GeForce GTS 450 comes with core clock speeds of 783 MHz on the GPU, and 902 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 192 SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 965M, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 944 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this specific model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator 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 965M 5650 points
GeForce GTS 450 1453 points
Difference: 4197 (289%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 965M 60 Watts
GeForce GTS 450 106 Watts
Difference: 46 Watts (77%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 965M should be 11% quicker than the GeForce GTS 450 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 965M 64000 MB/sec
GeForce GTS 450 57728 MB/sec
Difference: 6272 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 965M should be much (approximately 141%) better at AF than the GeForce GTS 450. (explain)

GeForce GTX 965M 60416 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTS 450 25056 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 35360 (141%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 965M is superior to the GeForce GTS 450, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 965M 30208 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTS 450 12528 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 17680 (141%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTS 450 GeForce GTX 965M
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year September 2010 January 5 2015
Code Name GF106 GM204
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 783 MHz 944 MHz
Memory Speed 3608 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 106 watts 60 watts
Bandwidth 57728 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 25056 Mtexels/sec 60416 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 12528 Mpixels/sec 30208 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 192 1024
Texture Mapping Units 32 64
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-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 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, 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 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 number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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