NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6450 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition and AMD Radeon HD 6450 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6450 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition

Around 30% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 625 MHz
2.6x more texture fill rate: 12.96 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Around 56% better floating-point performance: 311.04 gflops vs 200 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 1334 MHz vs 1066 MHz

Core clock speed	810 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate	12.96 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	311.04 gflops vs 200 gflops
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1334 MHz vs 1066 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6450 OEM

Around 67% higher pipelines: 160 vs 96
3.6x lower typical power consumption: 18 Watt vs 65 Watt

Pipelines	160 vs 96
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition	AMD Radeon HD 6450 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF108	Caicos
Launch date	9 February 2011	7 February 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	810 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	311.04 gflops	200 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	96	160
Texture fill rate	12.96 GTexel / s	5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	18 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	21.34 GB / s	8.53 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1334 MHz	1066 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3