GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon HD 6450 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon HD 6450
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Radeon HD 6450
203
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon HD 6450
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GM206
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2015
April 2011
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 2.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
750 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
160
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
-
8.5-12.8 GB/x (DDR3) or 25.6-28.8 GB/s (GDDR5)
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
Eyefinity
-
1
Number of Eyefinity displays
-
4
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-