GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)

Intro

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

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 560		3030 points
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		340 points
	Difference: 2690 (791%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		31 Watts
GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
	Difference: 119 Watts (384%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 560 should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 115328 (901%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 will be much (about 807%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		5000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40360 (807%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 is superior to the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM), by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		2500 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23420 (937%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.