AMD Radeon HD 6450 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6450 and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 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
• 5x more pipelines: 160 vs 32
• 2.6x better floating-point performance: 200.0 gflops vs 76.16 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
• Around 57% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 47 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
• Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 700 MHz
• Around 61% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 198 vs 123
• 2.8x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 119 vs 43
• Around 80% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 810 vs 449
• Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1627 vs 1397
• Around 80% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 810 vs 449
• Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1627 vs 1397

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

• Around 72% higher texture fill rate: 8.6 billion / sec vs 5 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	198 123
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	119 43
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	810 449
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1627 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	810 449
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1627 1397

Compare specifications (specs)