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GeForce GTS 450

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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 7.38% (346th of 714)

Based on 25,436 user benchmarks.  Devices: 10DE 0DC4, 10DE 1245, 10DE 1249, 10DE 0DC5 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
Poor: 6%Average: 7.38% Great: 8%

Popular builds with this GPU

Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 averaged 92.6% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 8.6fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 8.66fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 is just 2.84%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 11.8fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 7.08fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 25,436 samples)
Rank 3467.38%
Min Avg Max
6.5 Lighting 8.6 10
7.1 Reflection 11.8 15.6
2.6 Parallax 7.08 9.3
7% 9.16 fps
Min Avg Max
6.3 MRender 11.9 13.9
7.4 Gravity 9.84 11.1
6.6 Splatting 8.66 10
8.1% 10.1 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Asus(1043 83A6) 1GB
CLim: 811 MHz, MLim: 902 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35
7.72% Terrible
Lighting 9
Reflection 12.6
Parallax 8.3
7% 9.97 fps
MRender 12.6
Gravity 10.2
Splatting 8.9
8% 10.6 fps
Asus(1043 83A6) 1GB
CLim: 811 MHz, MLim: 902 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 388.13
7.64% Terrible
Lighting 8.9
Reflection 11.9
Parallax 8.3
7% 9.7 fps
MRender 12.5
Gravity 10
Splatting 8.9
8% 10.5 fps
Device(0000 0000) 1GB
CLim: 789 MHz, MLim: 940 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35
7.56% Terrible
Lighting 8.8
Reflection 12.3
Parallax 8.3
7% 9.8 fps
MRender 12.5
Gravity 9.9
Splatting 8.8
8% 10.4 fps
Gainward(10B0 0401) 1GB
CLim: 783 MHz, MLim: 902 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35
7.43% Terrible
Lighting 8.6
Reflection 12.2
Parallax 8.2
7% 9.67 fps
MRender 12.5
Gravity 9.7
Splatting 8.7
8% 10.3 fps
Elitegroup(1019 2037) 1GB
CLim: 783 MHz, MLim: 902 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35
6.46% Terrible
Lighting 8.7
Reflection 12
Parallax 8.2
7% 9.63 fps
MRender 12.1
Gravity 9.8
Splatting 0.1
5% 7.33 fps
Device(0000 0000) 1GB
CLim: 783 MHz, MLim: 902 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.24
6.25% Terrible
Lighting 7.5
Reflection 10.7
Parallax 4.5
6% 7.57 fps
MRender 10.1
Gravity 7.4
Splatting 6.9
6% 8.13 fps
Nvidia(10DE 085B) 1.5GB
CLim: 789 MHz, MLim: 902 MHz, Ram: 1.5GB, Driver: 391.35
5.96% Terrible
Lighting 6.8
Reflection 10.9
Parallax 6.6
6% 8.1 fps
MRender 10.5
Gravity 7.5
Splatting 7.3
7% 8.43 fps
Device(0000 0000) 1GB
CLim: 783 MHz, MLim: 902 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.24
5.8% Terrible
Lighting 6.7
Reflection 10.8
Parallax 6.4
6% 7.97 fps
MRender 10.1
Gravity 7.4
Splatting 6.8
6% 8.1 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Device(0000 0000) 22% 7% ± 1%
MSI(1462 2360) 7% 8% ± 0%
Gainward(10B0 0401) 7% 7% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 34FE) 6% 8% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 1184) 5% 8% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1450) 4% 8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8365) 3% 7% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1452) 3% 8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83A7) 3% 7% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83A6) 3% 8% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1351) 3% 7% ± 0%
Asus(1043 837A) 3% 8% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 3500) 2% 8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83B6) 2% 5% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8375) 2% 8% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 085A) 2% 7% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2366) 2% 7% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83A2) 1% 5% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 2184) 1% 8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83B2) 1% 7% ± 0%
Elitegroup(1019 2023) 1% 7% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83B9) 1% 5% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0000) 1% 7% ± 1%
Gainward(10B0 0801) 1% 8% ± 0%
PNY(196E 085A) 1% 7% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0939) 1% 6% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8366) 1% 9% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83A8) 1% 8% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1352) 1% 7% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 3523) 1% 7% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 5184) 1% 8% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 3198) 1% 7% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 3503) 1% 9% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 090E) 0% 8% ± 1%
MSI(1462 2310) 0% 6% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 4178) 0% 5% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 2190) 0% 7% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0879) 0% 7% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 3194) 0% 7% ± 0%
MSI(1462 8095) 0% 6% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 3178) 0% 5% ± 0%
POV(1ACC 45C2) 0% 5% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83AD) 0% 6% ± 0%
Elitegroup(1019 2037) 0% 7% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2364) 0% 7% ± 0%
Device(107D 2728) 0% 7% ± 0%
Device(1048 0FA6) 0% 7% ± 0%
POV(1ACC 45A1) 0% 7% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0921) 0% 7% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 3184) 0% 8% ± 0%
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Gaming 4%
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Desktop 66%
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Workstation
Workstation 4%
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CPU
Core i7-3770Intel  $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples2,023x
Core i7-2600Intel  $192Bench 67%, 185,630 samples1,568x
Core i5-3470Intel  $59Bench 63%, 223,595 samples932x
GPU
GeForce GTS 450NvidiaBench 7%, 25,436 samples1x
SSD
A400 240GBKingston  $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples821x
Virtual NVMe Disk 64GBVmwareBench 62%, 2,103 samples456x
A400 480GBKingston  $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples424x
RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples516x
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples376x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples297x
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USA-User
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Terrible (edit your comment) Add link

2 months ago.

FRA-User
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4,573

Terrible

8 months ago.

This GPU is great for ~2010 to ~2015 games, but higher will be so laggy. The GPU make no sound, and is very cheap !

AUS-User
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3,950

Terrible

9 months ago.

My graphics card is the best i love it becuase this graphics card can run alot

UKR-User
Avatar level
3,591

Terrible

4 months ago.

Small price. Very good perfomance!

PAK-User
Avatar level
3,302

Good

14 months ago.

Cheaper and better has better graphics than it but is not performance based as the other.

ARG-User
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3,228

Excellent

12 months ago.

If u get a office pc, u can add this and play anything u want, it's really nice tho

BGR-User
Avatar level
2,882

Poor

16 months ago.

well its not like the best video card but for the price is good I can still run all games at high settings even many on ultra , for this small price is more than worth it!

AZE-User
Avatar level
1,390

Excellent

4 months ago.

im have this card i can play cs2 lol

AAVVIronAlex
Avatar level
10

Excellent

8 months ago.

Great card, it serverd me well through 2020, when everything else was expensive.

Szszymon14
Avatar level
6

Good

5 years ago.

It served me very well until Witcher 3 came out, both in terms of performance and TDP/noise. Now it's time for an upgrade.

KisaDesu
Avatar level
4

Poor

3 years ago.

Basically a scam card at this point

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