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).

 

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 197
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