Quadro RTX 5000 vs GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

Place in the ranking	666	97
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	14.30
Power efficiency	2.90	12.54
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	GF116	TU104
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	15 March 2011 (13 years ago)	13 August 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$2,299

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	192	3072
Core clock speed	783 MHz	1620 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1815 MHz
Number of transistors	1,170 million	13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	106 Watt	230 Watt
Texture fill rate	25.06	348.5
Floating-point processing power	0.6013 TFLOPS	11.15 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	64
TMUs	32	192
Tensor Cores	no data	384
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	48

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 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	210 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	902 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	57.73 GB/s	448.0 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	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	2.1	7.5

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	4.41	41.37
Recency	15 March 2011	13 August 2018
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	106 Watt	230 Watt

GTS 450 Rev. 2 has 117% lower power consumption.

RTX 5000, on the other hand, has a 838.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

The Quadro RTX 5000 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 is a desktop card while Quadro RTX 5000 is a workstation one.

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