GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 vs GRID K2

Place in the ranking	545	664
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.13	no data
Power efficiency	2.18	2.88
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GK104	GF116
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	11 May 2013 (11 years ago)	15 March 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$5,199	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1536	192
Core clock speed	745 MHz	783 MHz
Number of transistors	3,540 million	1,170 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	106 Watt
Texture fill rate	95.36	25.06
Floating-point processing power	2.289 TFLOPS	0.6013 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	16
TMUs	128	32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	210 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	902 MHz
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB/s	57.73 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.5 (5.1)	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	3.0	1.1
Vulkan	1.2.175	N/A
CUDA	3.0	2.1

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	7.09	4.41
Recency	11 May 2013	15 March 2011
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	106 Watt

GRID K2 has a 60.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

GTS 450 Rev. 2, on the other hand, has 112.3% lower power consumption.

The GRID K2 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 in performance tests.

Be aware that GRID K2 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.