AMD Radeon HD 6450 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6450 and NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6450

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 39% higher texture fill rate: 5 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec
  • 10x more pipelines: 160 vs 16
  • 6.8x better floating-point performance: 200.0 gflops vs 29.376 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
  • Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 40 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 198 vs 156
  • 5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 119 vs 24
  • 3.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 810 vs 224
  • 3.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1627 vs 445
  • 3.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 810 vs 224
  • 3.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1627 vs 445
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 April 2011 vs 17 April 2007
Texture fill rate 5 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec
Pipelines 160 vs 16
Floating-point performance 200.0 gflops vs 29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 40 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 198 vs 156
PassMark - G2D Mark 119 vs 24
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 810 vs 224
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1627 vs 445
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 810 vs 224
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1627 vs 445

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

  • 2.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 1791 vs 633
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 1791 vs 633

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
198
156
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
119
24
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
633
1791
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
810
224
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1627
445
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
810
224
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1627
445
Name AMD Radeon HD 6450 NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 198 156
PassMark - G2D Mark 119 24
Geekbench - OpenCL 633 1791
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 1.878
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 97.327
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.231
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 4.982
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 19.314
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 497
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 810 224
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1627 445
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 497
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 810 224
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1627 445
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6450 NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Caicos G86
Design AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date 7 April 2011 17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $55 $29.99
Place in performance rating 1627 1695
Price now $39.99 $39.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 9.02 3.68

Technical info

Boost clock speed 750 MHz
Floating-point performance 200.0 gflops 29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 160 16
Stream Processors 160
Texture fill rate 5 GTexel / s 3.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt 40 Watt
Transistor count 370 million 210 million
Core clock speed 459 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 4
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 2.0 x8
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 168 mm 170 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 8.5-12.8 GB/x (DDR3) or 25.6-28.8 GB/s (GDDR5) 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2
Standard memory config per GPU 256 MB

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
SLI