NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs AMD Radeon HD 6450

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and AMD Radeon HD 6450 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

AMD Radeon HD 6450

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 84% higher boost clock speed: 1379 MHz vs 750 MHz
6.6x more texture fill rate: 33.1 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
2.4x more pipelines: 384 vs 160
5.3x better floating-point performance: 1,059 gflops vs 200.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 30 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
2.6x more memory clock speed: 2100 MHz vs 800 MHz

Launch date	12 March 2018 vs 7 April 2011
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz vs 750 MHz
Texture fill rate	33.1 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 160
Floating-point performance	1,059 gflops vs 200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 30 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	2100 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6450

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	AMD Radeon HD 6450
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	620	0
PassMark - G3D Mark		198
PassMark - G2D Mark		119
Geekbench - OpenCL		639
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		1.878
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		97.327
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.231
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		4.982
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		19.314
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		497
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		810
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1627
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		497
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		810
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1627

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	AMD Radeon HD 6450
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	TeraScale 2
Code name	GP108	Caicos
Launch date	12 March 2018	7 April 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$79	$55
Place in performance rating	1625	1628
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Price now		$39.99
Value for money (0-100)		9.02
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz	750 MHz
Core clock speed	1152 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,059 gflops	200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	160
Texture fill rate	33.1 GTexel / s	5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	370 million
Stream Processors		160
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays		4
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x4	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Bus support		PCIe 2.0 x8
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	16.8 GB / s	8.5-12.8 GB/x (DDR3) or 25.6-28.8 GB/s (GDDR5)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2100 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR4	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire