AMD Radeon HD 7450 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7450 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 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 - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7450 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 67% higher pipelines: 160 vs 96
  • Around 4% better floating-point performance: 200.0 gflops vs 192 gflops
  • Around 28% lower typical power consumption: 18 Watt vs 23 Watt
  • Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 1066 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • Around 66% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 146 vs 88
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 January 2012 vs 3 September 2010
Pipelines 160 vs 96
Floating-point performance 200.0 gflops vs 192 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 18 Watt vs 23 Watt
Memory clock speed 1066 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 146 vs 88

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

  • Around 60% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 625 MHz
  • Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 6.0 billion / sec vs 5 GTexel / s
  • Around 76% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 397 vs 225
  • 2.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 1583 vs 635
  • Around 63% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 162.162 vs 99.563
  • Around 66% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 737 vs 443
  • Around 88% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1731 vs 919
  • Around 79% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2906 vs 1626
  • Around 66% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 737 vs 443
  • Around 88% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1731 vs 919
  • Around 79% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2906 vs 1626
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate 6.0 billion / sec vs 5 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 397 vs 225
Geekbench - OpenCL 1583 vs 635
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 162.162 vs 99.563
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 737 vs 443
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1731 vs 919
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2906 vs 1626
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 737 vs 443
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1731 vs 919
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2906 vs 1626

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7450 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
225
397
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
146
88
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
635
1583
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
99.563
162.162
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
443
737
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
919
1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1626
2906
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
443
737
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
919
1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1626
2906
Name AMD Radeon HD 7450 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
PassMark - G3D Mark 225 397
PassMark - G2D Mark 146 88
Geekbench - OpenCL 635 1583
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 99.563 162.162
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 443 737
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 919 1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1626 2906
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 443 737
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 919 1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1626 2906
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 4.329
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.426
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 12.306

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7450 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi
Code name Caicos GF108
Launch date 5 January 2012 3 September 2010
Place in performance rating 1515 1518
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 625 MHz 1000 MHz
Floating-point performance 200.0 gflops 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 160 96
Texture fill rate 5 GTexel / s 6.0 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 18 Watt 23 Watt
Transistor count 370 million 585 million
CUDA cores 96

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 API
OpenGL 4.4 4.5
OpenCL 1.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 8.528 GB / s 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1066 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 (G)DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA