NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 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: 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 - 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • 4.5x more core clock speed: 1566 MHz vs 350 MHz
  • 9x more texture fill rate: 25.1 billion / sec vs 2.8 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
  • 2.8x more memory clock speed: 1804 (3608 data rate) MHz vs 650 MHz
  • 10.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1322 vs 126
  • 11.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 310 vs 28
  • 13.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3325 vs 244
  • 13.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3325 vs 244
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 September 2010 vs 15 May 2006
Core clock speed 1566 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate 25.1 billion / sec vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1804 (3608 data rate) MHz vs 650 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1322 vs 126
PassMark - G2D Mark 310 vs 28
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3325 vs 244
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3325 vs 244

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT

  • 4.4x lower typical power consumption: 24 Watt vs 106 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 24 Watt vs 106 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1322
126
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
310
28
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3325
244
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3325
244
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 1322 126
PassMark - G2D Mark 310 28
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 - Manhattan (Frames) 3365
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3325 244
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2160
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3365
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3325 244
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Curie
Code name GF106 G73
Launch date 13 September 2010 15 May 2006
Launch price (MSRP) $129 $149.99
Place in performance rating 1130 1696
Price now $64.99 $149.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 26.46 0.94

Technical info

Core clock speed 1566 MHz 350 MHz
CUDA cores 192
Floating-point performance 601.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 100 °C
Pipelines 192
Texture fill rate 25.1 billion / sec 2.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 106 Watt 24 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 177 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 8.25" (210 mm) (21 cm)
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.2 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 57.7 GB / s 10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1804 (3608 data rate) MHz 650 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI