Radeon HD 8450 OEM vs GeForce 6200 TurboCache

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1426not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameNV44 B2Caicos
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 December 2004 (20 years ago)8 January 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data160
Core clock speed350 MHz625 MHz
Number of transistors75 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data18 Watt
Texture fill rate1.4005.000
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2 TFLOPS
ROPs24
TMUs48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 2.0 x16
Length165 mm168 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRDDR3
Maximum RAM amount64 MB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed250 MHz667 MHz
Memory bandwidth4 GB/s10.67 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model3.05.0
OpenGL2.14.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 December 2004 8 January 2013
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 110 nm 40 nm

HD 8450 OEM has an age advantage of 8 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 175% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 6200 TurboCache and Radeon HD 8450 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCache
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