GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 vs Radeon HD 7770

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking594not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.33no data
Power efficiency5.08no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameCape VerdeGF116
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 February 2012 (12 years ago)11 July 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 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 cores640144
Core clock speed1000 MHz783 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million1,170 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt106 Watt
Texture fill rate40.0018.79
Floating-point processing power1.28 TFLOPS0.451 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs4024

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 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length210 mm210 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s22.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Eyefinity+-
HDMI++

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 February 2012 11 July 2012
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 106 Watt

HD 7770 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 32.5% lower power consumption.

GTS 450 Rev. 3, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7770 and GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3. We've got no test results to judge.


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