AMD Radeon HD 7450A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7450A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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).

AMD Radeon HD 7450A

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7450A

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
6x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 150 Watt

Launch date	5 January 2012 vs 11 October 2010
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 625 MHz
7.3x more texture fill rate: 36.4 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
2.1x more pipelines: 336 vs 160
4.4x better floating-point performance: 873.6 gflops vs 200.0 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
2.1x more memory clock speed: 3400 MHz vs 1600 MHz
4.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3712 vs 902
4.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3712 vs 902
2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3353 vs 1592
2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3353 vs 1592

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate	36.4 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	336 vs 160
Floating-point performance	873.6 gflops vs 200.0 gflops
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3400 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3712 vs 902
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3712 vs 902
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3353 vs 1592
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353 vs 1592

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7450A
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

902

3712

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

902

3712

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1592

3353

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1592

3353

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7450A	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	288
PassMark - G2D Mark	385
Geekbench - OpenCL	668
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	902	3712
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	902	3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1592	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1592	3353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		22.202
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		661.765
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.872
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		28.112
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		76.736

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7450A	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Fermi
Code name	Caicos	GF104
Launch date	5 January 2012	11 October 2010
Place in performance rating	1078	1081
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	625 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	200.0 gflops	873.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	160	336
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s	36.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	1,950 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		210 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	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	108.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	3400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR5