NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GF106 GP106
GPU variant GF106-250-KA-A1 GP106-300-A1
Architecture Fermi Pascal
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 16 nm
Number of transistors 1,170 million 4,400 million
Die size 238 mm² 200 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Sep 13th, 2010 Aug 18th, 2016
Generation GeForce 400 GeForce 10
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 129 USD 199 USD
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 80 in our database 117 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 200 GeForce 900
Successor GeForce 500 GeForce 20

Clocks

GPU clock 783 MHz
Shader clock 1566 MHz
Memory clock 902 MHz 3.6 Gbps effective 2002 MHz 8 Gbps effective
Base clock 1506 MHz
Boost clock 1708 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 3 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 128 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 57.73 GB/s 192.2 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 192 1152
TMUs 32 72
ROPs 16 48
SM count 4 9
Cache L1 64 KB (per SM) 48 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 256 KB 1536 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 6.264 GPixel/s 81.98 GPixel/s
Texture rate 25.06 GTexel/s 123.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 601.3 GFLOPS 3.935 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 50.11 GFLOPS (1:12) 123.0 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (half) performance 61.49 GFLOPS (1:64)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 210 mm 8.3 inches 250 mm 9.8 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
TDP 106 W 120 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 300 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Board number P1060 PG410 SKU 20

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 3.0
Vulkan 1.2
CUDA 2.1 6.1
Shader model 5.1 6.4

Other Features

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