
GeForce 7800 GT and Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 - video card comparison
GeForce 7800 GT
Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G70
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2005
April 2011
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
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Core clock speed
400 MHz
750 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
302 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
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160
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
27 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.000
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Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11
OpenCL
N/A
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OpenGL
2.1
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Shader Model
3.0
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Vulkan
N/A
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