NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M vs AMD Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking1074not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money0.01no data
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code nameCaicosN10P-GV1
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date18 April 2011 (12 years old)11 February 2009 (15 years old)
Current price$129 $110
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16032
Core clock speed750 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistorsno data314 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rateno data8.000
Floating-point performanceno data80 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 and GeForce GT 120M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

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 typeGDDR5GDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data16 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX1111.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkanno dataN/A
CUDAno data1.1

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 18 April 2011 11 February 2009
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 23 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 and GeForce GT 120M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 is a desktop card while GeForce GT 120M is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5
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