GeForce GT 340 OEM vs GTS 450 Rev. 2

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking661not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.88no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGF116GT215
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 March 2011 (13 years ago)2 February 2010 (14 years ago)

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 cores19296
Core clock speed783 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors1,170 million727 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)106 Watt69 Watt
Texture fill rate25.0617.60
Floating-point processing power0.6013 TFLOPS0.2573 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs3232

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 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed902 MHz850 MHz
Memory bandwidth57.73 GB/s27.2 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 DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.11.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 March 2011 2 February 2010
Power consumption (TDP) 106 Watt 69 Watt

GTS 450 Rev. 2 has an age advantage of 1 year.

GT 340 OEM, on the other hand, has 53.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 and GeForce GT 340 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM
GeForce GT 340 OEM

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