AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • 5.6x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 106 Watt
Launch date 21 December 2013 vs 13 September 2010
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt vs 106 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

  • 2.5x more core clock speed: 1566 MHz vs 625 MHz
  • 5x more texture fill rate: 25.1 billion / sec vs 5 GTexel / s
  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 192 vs 160
  • 3x better floating-point performance: 601.3 gflops vs 200.0 gflops
  • Around 35% higher memory clock speed: 1804 (3608 data rate) MHz vs 1334 MHz
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3365 vs 1681
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3365 vs 1681
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3325 vs 3290
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3325 vs 3290
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1566 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate 25.1 billion / sec vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines 192 vs 160
Floating-point performance 601.3 gflops vs 200.0 gflops
Memory clock speed 1804 (3608 data rate) MHz vs 1334 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3365 vs 1681
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3365 vs 1681
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3325 vs 3290
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3325 vs 3290

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1681
3365
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1681
3365
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3290
3325
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3290
3325
Name AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1681 3365
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1681 3365
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3290 3325
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3290 3325
PassMark - G3D Mark 1322
PassMark - G2D Mark 310
Geekbench - OpenCL 4907
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 14.758
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 302.509
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.965
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 14.925
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 27.656
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2160
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2160
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi
Code name Caicos GF106
Launch date 21 December 2013 13 September 2010
Place in performance rating 1127 1130
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $129
Price now $64.99
Value for money (0-100) 26.46

Technical info

Core clock speed 625 MHz 1566 MHz
Floating-point performance 200.0 gflops 601.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 160 192
Texture fill rate 5 GTexel / s 25.1 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt 106 Watt
Transistor count 370 million 1,170 million
CUDA cores 192
Maximum GPU temperature 100 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI Internal
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm 8.25" (210 mm) (21 cm)
Supplementary power connectors None 6-pin
Bus support PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.2

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 10.67 GB / s 57.7 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1334 MHz 1804 (3608 data rate) MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI