Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile vs Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1118not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.44no data
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameCaicosAD107
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date18 April 2011 (13 years ago)26 February 2024 (less than a year ago)

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 cores1602560
Core clock speed750 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2025 MHz
Number of transistorsno data18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data162.0
Floating-point processing powerno data10.37 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data80
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX1112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2011 26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 35 Watt

HD 6450 GDDR5 has 29.6% lower power consumption.

Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 and RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 is a desktop card while RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5
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