Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile vs GeForce GTS 450

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking730not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.66no data
Power efficiency2.21no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGF106AD107
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date13 September 2010 (14 years ago)26 February 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$129 no data

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 cores1922560
Core clock speed783 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2025 MHz
Number of transistors1,170 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)106 Watt35 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature100 °Cno data
Texture fill rate25.06162.0
Floating-point processing power0.6013 TFLOPS10.37 TFLOPS
ROPs1648
TMUs3280
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0 x 16no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length210 mmno data
Height4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)no data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1804 (3608 data rate) MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth57.7 GB/s192.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsMini HDMITwo Dual Link DVIPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
Audio input for HDMIInternalno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.8
OpenGL4.24.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA+8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 September 2010 26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 106 Watt 35 Watt

Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile has an age advantage of 13 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 700% more advanced lithography process, and 202.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 450 and RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTS 450 is a desktop card while RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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