NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs AMD Radeon HD 7450

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7450 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

816 points

4194% significantly better overall score

19 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11381 points

1672% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

642 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11353 points

1687% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

635 points

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

200% significantly more memory

1 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

140 W

18 W

677% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

277th of 586

566th of 586

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon HD 7450 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 660 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 7450 in gaming.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 660 has significantly more memory with 3 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon HD 7450 has a significantly lower TDP at 18 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 660 over the Radeon HD 7450.