AMD Radeon HD 6450A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6450A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 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.

AMD Radeon HD 6450A

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
8.6x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 215 Watt

Launch date	7 April 2011 vs 26 March 2010
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 215 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

Around 94% higher core clock speed: 1215 MHz vs 625 MHz
6.8x more texture fill rate: 34.0 billion / sec vs 5 GTexel / s
2.8x more pipelines: 448 vs 160
5.4x better floating-point performance: 1,088.6 gflops vs 200 gflops
2.5x more maximum memory size: 1280 MB vs 512 MB
Around 57% higher memory clock speed: 1674 MHz (3348 data rate) vs 1066 MHz
12x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3107 vs 260
Around 95% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 405 vs 208

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1215 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate	34.0 billion / sec vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	448 vs 160
Floating-point performance	1,088.6 gflops vs 200 gflops
Maximum memory size	1280 MB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1674 MHz (3348 data rate) vs 1066 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3107 vs 260
PassMark - G2D Mark	405 vs 208

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6450A
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

260

3107

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

208

405

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6450A	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
PassMark - G3D Mark	260	3107
PassMark - G2D Mark	208	405
Geekbench - OpenCL		10940
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		27.93
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		980.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.268
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		47.309
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		97.852
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3873
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3614
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3317
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3873
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3614
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3317
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6450A	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Fermi
Code name	Caicos	GF100
Launch date	7 April 2011	26 March 2010
Place in performance rating	806	809
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$349
Price now		$522.01
Value for money (0-100)		6.87
Technical info
Core clock speed	625 MHz	1215 MHz
Floating-point performance	200 gflops	1,088.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	160	448
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s	34.0 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	215 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	3,100 million
CUDA cores		448
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support		16x PCI-E 2.0
Height		4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Length		9.5" (241 mm) (24.1 cm)
SLI options		2-way3-way
Supplementary power connectors		Two 6-pins
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1280 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.53 GB / s	133.9 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	320 Bit
Memory clock speed	1066 MHz	1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround