GeForce GT 420 OEM vs Radeon HD 6450

GeForce GT 420 OEM
Memory: 1048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Sep 2010
GeForce GT 420 OEM
Radeon HD 6450
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6450

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 420 OEM

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6450

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6450

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6450

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 420 OEMRadeon HD 6450
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-200-A1)vsCaicos (Caicos PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs370 million
Shaders48vs160
Compute Units1vs2
Core clock700 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs4vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 420 OEMRadeon HD 6450
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
Memory Size1048 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 420 OEMRadeon HD 6450
TDP50 wattsvs18 watts
Release Date3 Sep 2010vs7 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 420 OEM
    1.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 420 OEM
    2.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 420 OEM
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 420 OEM
    134.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6450
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better