NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon HD 7450

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 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

2262 points

11805% significantly better overall score

19 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

4440% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

642 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

4510% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

635 points

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

300% significantly more memory

1 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

18 W

705% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

567th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon HD 7450 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 7450 in gaming.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 970 has significantly more memory with 4 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 7450 has a significantly lower TDP at 18 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the Radeon HD 7450.