GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon HD 6450

GeForce GTX 460
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Jul 2010
GeForce GTX 460
Radeon HD 6450
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6450

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 460
    678%
  • Radeon HD 6450
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 460

Around 578% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

142 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 460 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 460

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 460

The GeForce GTX 460 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 460Radeon HD 6450
GPU NameGF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1)vsCaicos (Caicos PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs370 million
Shaders336vs160
Compute Units7vs2
Core clock675 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs32vs4
TMUs56vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 460Radeon HD 6450
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 460Radeon HD 6450
TDP160 wattsvs18 watts
Release Date12 Jul 2010vs7 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460
    9.45 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460
    37.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 460
    115.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 460
    907.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6450
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 460
    3530
  • Radeon HD 6450
    520

Points (higher is better)