GeForce GT 240M LE vs Radeon HD 6450A

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1180not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.84no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameCaicosG96C
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 April 2011 (13 years ago)15 January 2010 (14 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 cores16032
Core clock speed625 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors370 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate5.0009.600
Floating-point processing power0.2 TFLOPS0.096 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs816

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).

InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 2.0 x16

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 typeDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed533 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth8.528 GB/s12.8 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 April 2011 15 January 2010
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 23 Watt

HD 6450A has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

GT 240M LE, on the other hand, has 8.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6450A and GeForce GT 240M LE. We've got no test results to judge.


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