NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 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: 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, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • Around 92% lower typical power consumption: 106 Watt vs 204 Watt
  • 2.9x more memory clock speed: 3608 MHz vs 1242 MHz
Launch date 15 March 2011 vs 23 December 2008
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 106 Watt vs 204 Watt
Memory clock speed 3608 MHz vs 1242 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

  • Around 89% higher core clock speed: 1476 MHz vs 783 MHz
  • 2.1x more texture fill rate: 51.8 billion / sec vs 25.06 GTexel / s
  • Around 25% higher pipelines: 240 vs 192
  • Around 18% better floating-point performance: 708.5 gflops vs 601.3 gflops
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3347 vs 3313
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3347 vs 3313
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1476 MHz vs 783 MHz
Texture fill rate 51.8 billion / sec vs 25.06 GTexel / s
Pipelines 240 vs 192
Floating-point performance 708.5 gflops vs 601.3 gflops
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3347 vs 3313
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3347 vs 3313

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3313
3347
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3313
3347
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
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 3347
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2166
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3313 3347
PassMark - G3D Mark 1515
PassMark - G2D Mark 76
Geekbench - OpenCL 22124

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Tesla 2.0
Code name GF116 GT200B
Launch date 15 March 2011 23 December 2008
Place in performance rating 1185 1187
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $359
Price now $179.99
Value for money (0-100) 9.17

Technical info

Core clock speed 783 MHz 1476 MHz
Floating-point performance 601.3 gflops 708.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 192 240
Texture fill rate 25.06 GTexel / s 51.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 106 Watt 204 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 1,400 million
CUDA cores 240
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 210 mm 10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
SLI options 2-way3-way

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 57.7 GB / s 159.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 3608 MHz 1242 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
High Dynamic-Range Lighting (HDRR) 128bit
SLI