GeForce 9400 GT vs Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1111not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.57no data
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameCaicosG96C
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 April 2011 (13 years ago)27 August 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$79.99

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 cores16016
Core clock speed750 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistorsno data314 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperatureno data105 °C
Texture fill rateno data4.400
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0448 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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 supportno dataPCI-E 2.0
Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Heightno data4.376" (11.1 cm)
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options-+

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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data12.8 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 Connectorsno dataDual Link DVI
Multi monitor supportno data+
HDMI-+
Maximum VGA resolutionno data2048x1536
Audio input for HDMIno dataS/PDIF

API compatibility

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

DirectX1111.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2011 27 August 2008
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 50 Watt

HD 6450 GDDR5 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 37.5% more advanced lithography process, and 85.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 and GeForce 9400 GT. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5
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