NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

3440 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +2724%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

0.451 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

902 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

3

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

144

112

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.698 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.79 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

451.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.58 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GF106

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

106W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.1

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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