AMD Radeon HD 7450M vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7450M and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 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 7450M

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7450M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 350 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
9.6x lower typical power consumption: 7 Watt vs 67 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
2.6x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 700 MHz
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 330 vs 142
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 441 vs 212

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2012 vs 14 April 2004
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	7 Watt vs 67 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	330 vs 142
PassMark - G2D Mark	441 vs 212

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7450M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

330

142

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

441

212

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7450M	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	330	142
PassMark - G2D Mark	441	212
Geekbench - OpenCL	476
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1832
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1832
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3493
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3493

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7450M	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Seymour	NV40 A1
Launch date	7 January 2012	14 April 2004
Place in performance rating	809	807
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	224.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	160
Texture fill rate	5.6 GTexel / s	5.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	7 Watt	67 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0