GeForce2 MX vs Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1136	1553
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	2.43	no data
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	Caicos	NV11 A2
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	18 April 2011 (13 years ago)	28 June 2000 (24 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 cores	160	no data
Core clock speed	750 MHz	175 MHz
Number of transistors	no data	20 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	27 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	no data	0.7
ROPs	no data	2
TMUs	no data	4

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).

Interface	no data	AGP 4x
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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 type	GDDR5	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	32 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	166 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	2.656 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

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 Connectors

no data

1x VGA

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	11	7.0
OpenGL	no data	1.2
OpenCL	no data	N/A
Vulkan	-	N/A

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p	7	no data
Full HD	15	no data
1200p	5	no data

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	18 April 2011	28 June 2000
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	32 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	180 nm

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