GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs Radeon HD 6450

Place in the ranking	1226	964
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.96	2.16
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	Caicos	GK107
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Design	reference	no data
Release date	7 April 2011 (13 years ago)	1 April 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$55	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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	384
Core clock speed	no data	950 MHz
Boost clock speed	750 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	370 million	1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	5.000	30.40
Floating-point processing power	0.2 TFLOPS	0.7296 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	16
TMUs	8	32

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).

Bus support	PCIe 2.0 x8	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	168 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB/s	80 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	8.5-12.8 GB/x (DDR3) or 25.6-28.8 GB/s (GDDR5)	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	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Eyefinity	+	-
Number of Eyefinity displays	4	no data
HDMI	+	-
DisplayPort support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire

API compatibility

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

DirectX	DirectX® 11	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.0	5.1
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	-	1.1.126
CUDA	-	3.0

Gaming performance

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

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.51	1.56
Recency	7 April 2011	1 April 2013
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	50 Watt

HD 6450 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

GTX 660M Mac Edition, on the other hand, has a 205.9% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 6450 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6450 is a desktop card while GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition is a notebook one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.