Radeon HD 6450 OEM vs NVS 300

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGT218Caicos
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date8 January 2011 (13 years ago)7 February 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$109 no data

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 cores16160
Core clock speed520 MHz625 MHz
Number of transistors260 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate4.1605.000
Floating-point processing power0.03936 TFLOPS0.2 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length145 mm168 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed790 MHz533 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.64 GB/s8.528 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 DMS-591x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model4.15.0
OpenGL3.34.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.2-

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between NVS 300 and Radeon HD 6450 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that NVS 300 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon HD 6450 OEM is a desktop one.


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