NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon HD 6450

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6450 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon HD 6450

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 27.00

$ 142.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

infinity significantly better overall score

0 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

26 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

2838% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

632 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

2716% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

638 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

94% significantly higher boost clock speed

750 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

100% significantly more memory

1 GiB

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

1301% significantly higher memory bandwidth

8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

30 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586

584th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 6450 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 6450 in our tests.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1050 has significantly more memory with 2 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon HD 6450 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 at 75 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 is better than the Radeon HD 6450.