GeForce 9600 GSO vs Radeon HD 6450 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6450 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 8.528GB/s)
Radeon HD 6450 OEM 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 384GB)
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (18W vs 84W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GSO
+32%
264
Radeon HD 6450 OEM
200
Graphics Card
Apr 2008
Release Date
Feb 2011
GeForce 9
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
533 MHz
Memory
384MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
64bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
8.528GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
12
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
160
48
TMUs
8
12
ROPs
4
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
48 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
6.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.500 GPixel/s
26.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.000 GTexel/s
264.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
200.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
84W
TDP
18W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Caicos
-
GPU Variant
Junbonator
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0