GeForce 6150 SE + nForce 430 vs Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking983not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.29no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameStoney RidgeC61
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)11 October 2004 (20 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 cores192no data
Core clock speedno data425 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-45 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data0.43
ROPsno data1
TMUsno data1

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCI
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeno dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 11 October 2004
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm

R5 (Stoney Ridge) has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) and GeForce 6150 SE + nForce 430. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) is a notebook card while GeForce 6150 SE + nForce 430 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)
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NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE + nForce 430
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