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GeForce 8600 GTS vs Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB

Intro

The GeForce 8600 GTS comes with a GPU clock speed of 675 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM runs at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 32 Stream Processors, 16 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB, which features GPU clock speed of 750 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 900 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 160 SPUs, 8 TAUs, and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB 31 Watts
GeForce 8600 GTS 75 Watts
Difference: 44 Watts (142%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 8600 GTS should theoretically be a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB in general. (explain)

GeForce 8600 GTS 32000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8600 GTS will be quite a bit (approximately 80%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)

GeForce 8600 GTS 10800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB 6000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 4800 (80%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 8600 GTS will be quite a bit (approximately 80%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce 8600 GTS 5400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB 3000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2400 (80%)

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 8600 GTS Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2007 February 2011
Code Name G84 Caicos
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 675 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 MHz 3600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 31 watts
Bandwidth 32000 MB/sec 28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 10800 Mtexels/sec 6000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 5400 Mpixels/sec 3000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 160
Texture Mapping Units 16 8
Render Output Units 8 4
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 40 nm
Transistors 289 million 370 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 8600 GTS

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Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB

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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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