Radeon HD 6450 and GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6450

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Caicos

G96B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2011

July 2008

Bus support

PCIe 2.0 x8

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Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Boost clock speed

750 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

600 MHz

Floating-point performance

200.0 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

370 million

314 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

160

32

Power consumption (TDP)

30 Watt

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

5.000

9.600

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

1800 MBps

Memory bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

28.8 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

8.5-12.8 GB/x (DDR3) or 25.6-28.8 GB/s (GDDR5)

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Eyefinity

1

-

Number of Eyefinity displays

4

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

+

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

-

1.1

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.4

3.3

Shader Model

5.0

4.0

Vulkan

-

N/A

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

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