Comparison of GeForce GTS 250 and GeForce GTS 450

Attribute	GeForce GTS 250 ×	GeForce GTS 450 ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2009	2012
Reference card	Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 702 MHz 1 GB	-
GPU brand	Nvidia	Nvidia
GPU name	G92 B1	GF116
Market	Desktop	Desktop
Clock speed (MHz)	750	783
Is dual GPU	-	-
Model	GeForce GTS 250	GeForce GTS 450
Memory
Memory (MB)	1,024	1,024
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	73.6	22.4
Memory bus (bit)	256	128
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR3
Memory clock speed (MHz)	1,150	700
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	2,300	1,400
Noise and power
TDP (W)	150	106
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	12	4.7
Render output processors	16	16
Texture mapping units	64	24
Shading units	128	144
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	484	451
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	48	18.79
Benchmarks
FarCry 3	-	30
Battlefield 3	49	25
Particle simulation (mInteraction/s)	-	134.39
T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) (frames/s)	-	1.25
Video composition (frames/s)	-	20.02
PassMark	893	-
PassMark Direct Compute	180	-
Dirt3	57.5	-
Cloud Gate Factor	10.84	-
Face detection (mPixels/s)	-	16.49
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0)	3276.12	-
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	-	27.93
Sky Diver Factor	132.04	-
Fire Strike Factor	16.34	-
Ocean surface simulation (frames/s)	-	425.37