Radeon HD 6450 and GeForce 9600 GS OEM - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6450

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Caicos

G94

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2011

July 2008

Bus support

PCIe 2.0 x8

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

750 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

500 MHz

Floating-point performance

200.0 gflops

120 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

370 million

505 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

160

48

Power consumption (TDP)

30 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

5.000

12.00

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR2

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

768 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

48 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

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 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

-

-