Quadro4 100 NVS vs GeForce GTS 450 OEM

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameGF106NV17 A3
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date11 October 2010 (14 years ago)22 December 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$129 no data

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 cores144no data
Core clock speed790 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors1,170 million29 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)106 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rate18.961.000
Floating-point processing power0.455 TFLOPSno data
ROPs242
TMUs244

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 4x
Length210 mm168 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount1536 MB64 MB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz166 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s5.312 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI1x LFH60
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)8.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 October 2010 22 December 2003
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 64 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 106 Watt 10 Watt

GTS 450 OEM has an age advantage of 6 years, a 2300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

Quadro4 100 NVS, on the other hand, has 960% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 450 OEM and Quadro4 100 NVS. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTS 450 OEM is a desktop card while Quadro4 100 NVS is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM
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NVIDIA Quadro4 100 NVS
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