AMD Radeon R7 M265DX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 M265DX 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M265DX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 3.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 15678 vs 4926
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 January 2014 vs 13 September 2010
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 15678 vs 4926

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

  • 2x more core clock speed: 1566 MHz vs 780 MHz
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 304 vs 138
  • 2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1322 vs 499
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1566 MHz vs 780 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 304 vs 138
PassMark - G3D Mark 1322 vs 499

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 M265DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
15678
4926
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
138
304
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
499
1322
Name AMD Radeon R7 M265DX NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
Geekbench - OpenCL 15678 4926
PassMark - G2D Mark 138 304
PassMark - G3D Mark 499 1322
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 - Manhattan (Frames) 3365
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3325
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2160
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3365
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3325
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R7 M265DX NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Fermi
Code name Jet GF106
Launch date 7 January 2014 13 September 2010
Place in performance rating 1141 1144
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $129
Price now $64.99
Value for money (0-100) 26.46

Technical info

Boost clock speed 855 MHz
Core clock speed 780 MHz 1566 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Transistor count 1,040 million 1,170 million
CUDA cores 192
Floating-point performance 601.3 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature 100 °C
Pipelines 192
Texture fill rate 25.1 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 106 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 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 IGP PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Length 8.25" (210 mm) (21 cm)
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.2

Memory

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

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI