ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 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.

ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 30% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 30% higher texture fill rate: 5.2 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB

Launch date	4 February 2010 vs 12 August 2004
Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 666 MHz

Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 666 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark		143
PassMark - G2D Mark		53

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Cedar	NV43 A2
Launch date	4 February 2010	12 August 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	1588
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$64.95
Price now		$64.95
Value for money (0-100)		2.05
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	104 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	80
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	146 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	5.33 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	666 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3