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GeForce GT 450 (OEM) vs Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)

Intro

The GeForce GT 450 (OEM) comes with a GPU core speed of 790 MHz, and the 1536 MB of GDDR5 RAM is set to run at 1000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 144 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 24 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM), which has core speeds of 625 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 160 SPUs as well as 8 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 31 Watts
GeForce GT 450 (OEM) 106 Watts
Difference: 75 Watts (242%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GT 450 (OEM) should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 450 (OEM) 96000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 83200 (650%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 450 (OEM) should be quite a bit (approximately 279%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GT 450 (OEM) 18960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 5000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 13960 (279%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GT 450 (OEM) is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GT 450 (OEM) 18960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 2500 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 16460 (658%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 450 (OEM) Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 February 2011
Code Name GF106 Caicos
Memory 1536 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 790 MHz 625 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 1600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 106 watts 31 watts
Bandwidth 96000 MB/sec 12800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 18960 Mtexels/sec 5000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 18960 Mpixels/sec 2500 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 144 160
Texture Mapping Units 24 8
Render Output Units 24 4
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR3
Bus Width 192-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1170 million 370 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GT 450 (OEM)

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Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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