GeForce GTS 450 DDR3 vs Radeon HD 6250
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450 DDR3 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6250 |
| 87 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 450 DDR3 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTS 450 DDR3 | | Radeon HD 6250 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF116 (GF116-200-KA-A1) | vs | Cedar (Cedar PRO) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 238 mm² | vs | 59 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,170 million | vs | 292 million |
| Shaders | 144 | vs | 80 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 783 MHz | vs | 650 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 24 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTS 450 DDR3 | | Radeon HD 6250 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 700 MHz
1400 MHz effective | vs | 500 MHz
1000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTS 450 DDR3 | | Radeon HD 6250 | |
|---|
| TDP | 106 watts | vs | 19 watts |
| Release Date | 11 Jul 2012 | vs | 31 Jan 2011 |
GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
4.70 GP/s
Radeon HD 6250
2.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
18.80 GT/s
Radeon HD 6250
5.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
22.40 GB/s
Radeon HD 6250
8.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
451.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6250
104.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better