NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

3440 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

0.451 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +2724%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Jul 2012

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

3

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

144

Shading Units

3584

24

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

4.698 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

18.79 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

451.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

37.58 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

GA106

GF116-200-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

12 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

106W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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