AMD Radeon R7 450 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Compare AMD Radeon R7 450 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 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

297 points

593 points

99% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

8 FPS

13 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

11 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

6 FPS

10 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

9 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10702 points

12257 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9779 points

10582 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10058 points

11578 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8478 points

9535 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1097 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

72 GB/s

80.19 GB/s

11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

14.8 Gigapixels/s

18.82 Gigapixels/s

27% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigatexels/s

47.04 Gigatexels/s

58% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

640

25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

377th of 586

309th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2015 March

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

4.3

4.5

Radeon R7 450 vs GeForce GTX 960M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 960M graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 450 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 960M has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 960M has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, both the Radeon R7 450 and the GeForce GTX 960M have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 960M is faster than the Radeon R7 450.