NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 0 month(s) later
3.1x more core clock speed: 783 MHz vs 250 MHz
25.1x more texture fill rate: 25.06 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
9x more memory clock speed: 3608 MHz vs 400 MHz

Launch date	15 March 2011 vs 1 March 2004
Core clock speed	783 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	25.06 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	3608 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	12.611
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	422.002
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.255
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	25.132
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	49.9
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2166
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3313
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2166
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3313
PassMark - G3D Mark		25
PassMark - G2D Mark		147

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Rankine
Code name	GF116	NV36 A1
Launch date	15 March 2011	1 March 2004
Place in performance rating	1145	1147
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	783 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	601.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	192
Texture fill rate	25.06 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	106 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	82 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	210 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	57.7 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	3608 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR