AMD Radeon HD 6450 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Caicos G96
GPU variant Caicos PRO NB9E-GE
Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Foundry TSMC UMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 370 million 314 million
Die size 67 mm² 144 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 7th, 2011
Generation Northern Islands
Production End-of-life
Launch price 55 USD
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 14 in our database
Predecessor Evergreen
Successor Southern Islands

Clocks

GPU clock 625 MHz 625 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 3.2 Gbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1550 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 25.60 GB/s 25.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 160 32
TMUs 8 16
ROPs 4 8
Compute units 2
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 128 KB 32 KB
SM count 4

Performance

Pixel rate 2.500 GPixel/s 5.000 GPixel/s
Texture rate 5.000 GTexel/s 10.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 200.0 GFLOPS 99.20 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot MXM Module
Length 168 mm 6.6 inches
TDP 18 W 45 W
Suggested PSU 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI1x VGA No outputs
Power connectors None
Board number C264

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 4.4 3.3
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0 4.0
CUDA 1.1

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Jul 29th, 2008
Generation GeForce 9M (9700M)
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-II
Predecessor GeForce 8M
Successor GeForce 100M

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