AMD Radeon HD 6450A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6450A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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).

AMD Radeon HD 6450A

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 month(s) later
8.8x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 219 Watt

Launch date	7 April 2011 vs 7 December 2010
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 219 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

Around 17% higher core clock speed: 732 MHz vs 625 MHz
8.8x more texture fill rate: 43.92 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
3x more pipelines: 480 vs 160
7x better floating-point performance: 1,405 gflops vs 200 gflops
2.5x more maximum memory size: 1280 MB vs 512 MB
3.6x more memory clock speed: 3800 MHz vs 1066 MHz

Core clock speed	732 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate	43.92 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 160
Floating-point performance	1,405 gflops vs 200 gflops
Maximum memory size	1280 MB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3800 MHz vs 1066 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6450A
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6450A	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2
PassMark - G3D Mark	260
PassMark - G2D Mark	208
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		36.499
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		674.215
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.967
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		36.208
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		123.354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		5405
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5405
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3357

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6450A	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Caicos	GF110
Launch date	7 April 2011	7 December 2010
Place in performance rating	806	807
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$349
Technical info
Core clock speed	625 MHz	732 MHz
Floating-point performance	200 gflops	1,405 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	160	480
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s	43.92 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	219 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	3,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1280 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.53 GB / s	152.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	320 Bit
Memory clock speed	1066 MHz	3800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5