GeForce 940A vs Radeon HD 6450

GeForce 940A
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce 940A
Radeon HD 6450
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6450

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 940A
    471%
  • Radeon HD 6450
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 940A

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 371% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6450

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce 940A

HWBench recommends GeForce 940A

The GeForce 940A is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940ARadeon HD 6450
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GT-S)vsCaicos (Caicos PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs370 million
Shaders384vs160
Compute Units3vs2
Core clock1029 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs16vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940ARadeon HD 6450
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940ARadeon HD 6450
TDP33 wattsvs18 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs7 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940A
    8.23 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940A
    16.46 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940A
    16.02 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940A
    790.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6450
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 940A
    2450
  • Radeon HD 6450
    520

Points (higher is better)