NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX vs AMD Radeon HD 7450M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX and AMD Radeon HD 7450M 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
  • 8.6x more texture fill rate: 48.0 billion / sec vs 5.6 GTexel / s
  • 6x more pipelines: 960 vs 160
  • 5.2x better floating-point performance: 1,154 gflops vs 224.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 1 GB
  • 6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1967 vs 330
  • 13x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 6174 vs 476
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3698 vs 1832
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3698 vs 1832
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 October 2012 vs 7 January 2012
Texture fill rate 48.0 billion / sec vs 5.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 960 vs 160
Floating-point performance 1,154 gflops vs 224.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1967 vs 330
Geekbench - OpenCL 6174 vs 476
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3698 vs 1832
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3698 vs 1832

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7450M

  • Around 17% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 10.7x lower typical power consumption: 7 Watt vs 75 Watt
  • Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1400 MHz
  • Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 441 vs 328
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3493 vs 3350
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3493 vs 3350
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 700 MHz vs 600 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 7 Watt vs 75 Watt
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 441 vs 328
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3493 vs 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3493 vs 3350

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7450M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1967
330
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
328
441
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
6174
476
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3698
1832
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3350
3493
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3698
1832
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3350
3493
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX AMD Radeon HD 7450M
PassMark - G3D Mark 1967 330
PassMark - G2D Mark 328 441
Geekbench - OpenCL 6174 476
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 20.831
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3396
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3698 1832
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350 3493
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3396
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3698 1832
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350 3493
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX AMD Radeon HD 7450M

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale 2
Code name GK104 Seymour
Launch date 1 October 2012 7 January 2012
Place in performance rating 821 823
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 700 MHz
CUDA cores 960
Floating-point performance 1,154 gflops 224.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 960 160
Texture fill rate 48.0 billion / sec 5.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 7 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 370 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 12 API 11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 67.2 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
FXAA
SLI
TXAA