GeForce GT 450 (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 285 1GB

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 285 1GB, which has core clock speeds of 648 MHz on the GPU, and 1242 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 240 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		106 Watts
GeForce GTX 285 1GB		204 Watts
	Difference: 98 Watts (92%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 285 1GB should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce GT 450 (OEM) overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 285 1GB		158976 MB/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 62976 (66%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 285 1GB is much (about 173%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 450 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX 285 1GB		51840 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		18960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 32880 (173%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 285 1GB is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce GTX 285 1GB		20736 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		18960 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1776 (9%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. 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 is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.