AMD Radeon HD 7450A vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7450A and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 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).

AMD Radeon HD 7450A

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7450A

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 79% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 350 MHz
Around 19% higher texture fill rate: 5 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
2.2x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 55 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
2.7x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 600 MHz
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 288 vs 124
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 385 vs 152

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2012 vs 9 August 2004
Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 55 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	288 vs 124
PassMark - G2D Mark	385 vs 152

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7450A
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

288

124

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

385

152

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7450A	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
PassMark - G3D Mark	288	124
PassMark - G2D Mark	385	152
Geekbench - OpenCL	668
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	902
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	902
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1592
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1592

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7450A	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Caicos	NV41
Launch date	5 January 2012	9 August 2004
Place in performance rating	1102	1105
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$799
Technical info
Core clock speed	625 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	160
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s	4.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	55 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR