AMD Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 vs Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated1074
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for moneyno data0.01
ArchitectureGen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameSandy BridgeCaicos
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 May 2011 (12 years old)18 April 2011 (12 years old)
Current price$760 $129
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6160
Core clock speed350 MHz750 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology32 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data27 Watt

Memory

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 typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data900 MHz
Shared memory+-

API support

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

DirectX10.111

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) 976
HD 6450 GDDR5 2822
+189%

Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 outperforms HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) by 189% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) 1405
HD 6450 GDDR5 4257
+203%

Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 outperforms HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) by 203% in 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU.

Advantages and disadvantages


Chip lithography 32 nm 40 nm

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) and Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) is a notebook card while Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 is a desktop one.


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Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
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AMD Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5
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