Radeon RX Vega 3 vs GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

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GTS 450 Rev. 3 GTS 450 Rev. 3
RX Vega 3 RX Vega 3

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated776
Place by popularitynot in top-10080
Power efficiencyno data13.75
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGF116Picasso
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 July 2012 (12 years ago)6 January 2019 (5 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 cores144192
Core clock speed783 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1001 MHz
Number of transistors1,170 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)106 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate18.7912.01
Floating-point processing power0.451 TFLOPS0.3844 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs2412

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 x16IGP
Length210 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed700 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/sno data
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-HDMINo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary

Recency 11 July 2012 6 January 2019
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 106 Watt 15 Watt

RX Vega 3 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 606.7% lower power consumption.

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

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