AMD Radeon HD 6450 vs NVIDIA GeForce G100 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6450 and NVIDIA GeForce G100 OEM 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 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 16% higher texture fill rate: 5 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
  • 20x more pipelines: 160 vs 8
  • 9.6x better floating-point performance: 200.0 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 35 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 197 vs 185
  • Around 92% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 119 vs 62
  • 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1627 vs 593
  • 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1627 vs 593
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 April 2011 vs 10 March 2009
Texture fill rate 5 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
Pipelines 160 vs 8
Floating-point performance 200.0 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 35 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 197 vs 185
PassMark - G2D Mark 119 vs 62
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1627 vs 593
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1627 vs 593

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce G100 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
197
185
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
119
62
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1627
593
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1627
593
Name AMD Radeon HD 6450 NVIDIA GeForce G100 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 197 185
PassMark - G2D Mark 119 62
Geekbench - OpenCL 639
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
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1627 593
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 497
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 810
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1627 593
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6450 NVIDIA GeForce G100 OEM

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Caicos G98
Design AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date 7 April 2011 10 March 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $55
Place in performance rating 1628 1631
Price now $39.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 9.02

Technical info

Boost clock speed 750 MHz
Floating-point performance 200.0 gflops 20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 160 8
Stream Processors 160
Texture fill rate 5 GTexel / s 4.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 370 million 210 million
Core clock speed 540 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 1x DVI, 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 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

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

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire