GeForce RTX 2060 vs GTS 450 Rev. 3

GTS 240 OEM GTS 250 GTS 450 GTS 450 OEM GTS 450 Rev. 2 GTS 450 Rev. 3
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RTX 2060 RTX 2060 12 GB RTX 2060 Super RTX 2070 RTX 2070 Super RTX 2080 RTX 2080 Super RTX 2080 Ti RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB RTX 3060 RTX 4060 RTX 4090

Contents

GTS 450 Rev. 3 GTS 450 Rev. 3
RTX 2060 RTX 2060

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated129
Place by popularitynot in top-10020
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data40.92
Power efficiencyno data15.87
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGF116TU106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 July 2012 (12 years ago)7 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$349

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 cores1441920
Core clock speed783 MHz1365 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1680 MHz
Number of transistors1,170 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)106 Watt160 Watt
Texture fill rate18.79201.6
Floating-point processing power0.451 TFLOPS6.451 TFLOPS
ROPs1648
TMUs24120
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

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 3.0 x16
Length210 mm229 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s336.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI++
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA2.17.5

Pros & cons summary

Recency 11 July 2012 7 January 2019
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 106 Watt 160 Watt

GTS 450 Rev. 3 has 50.9% lower power consumption.

RTX 2060, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 and GeForce RTX 2060. We've got no test results to judge.

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

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