NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A vs AMD Radeon HD 6510

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A and AMD Radeon HD 6510 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, 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A

AMD Radeon HD 6510

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 29% higher core clock speed: 837 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 72% higher texture fill rate: 26.78 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Around 3% better floating-point performance: 642.8 gflops vs 624.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 18% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 39 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
Around 35% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1334 MHz
2.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 19809 vs 7845

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 August 2013 vs 14 May 2011
Core clock speed	837 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	26.78 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	642.8 gflops vs 624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 39 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1334 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	19809 vs 7845

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6510

Around 25% higher pipelines: 480 vs 384

Pipelines	480 vs 384

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6510

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

19809

7845

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A	AMD Radeon HD 6510
PassMark - G3D Mark	1238
PassMark - G2D Mark	305
Geekbench - OpenCL	19809	7845
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	12.446
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	278.161
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.883
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	14.778
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	25.74
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1970
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1970
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2551
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2551

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A	AMD Radeon HD 6510
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale 2
Code name	GK107	Turks
Launch date	26 August 2013	14 May 2011
Place in performance rating	1221	1222
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	837 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	642.8 gflops	624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	480
Texture fill rate	26.78 GTexel / s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	39 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	716 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		165 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1334 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3