Radeon HD 7450 OEM vs GeForce 8800 GT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1045	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.02	no data
Power efficiency	0.67	no data
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	G92	Caicos
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	29 October 2007 (17 years ago)	5 January 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$349	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	112	160
Core clock speed	600 MHz	625 MHz
Number of transistors	754 million	370 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	105 Watt	18 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C	no data
Texture fill rate	33.60	5.000
Floating-point processing power	0.336 TFLOPS	0.2 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	4
TMUs	56	8

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).

Bus support	PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	229 mm	168 mm
Height	Single Slot	no data
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
SLI options	2-way	-

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 type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	533 MHz
Memory bandwidth	57.6 GB/s	8.528 GB/s

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 Connectors	Dual Link DVIHDTV	1x DVI, 1x HDMI
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDMI	-	+
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data
Audio input for HDMI	S/PDIF	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

High Dynamic-Range Lighting (HDRR)

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no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	4.0	5.0
OpenGL	2.1	4.4
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	29 October 2007	5 January 2012
Chip lithography	65 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	105 Watt	18 Watt

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