ATI Radeon HD 5530 vs HD 6450 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameCaicosCedar
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date7 February 2011 (13 years ago)17 March 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16080
Core clock speed625 MHz650 MHz
Number of transistors370 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt19 Watt
Texture fill rate5.0005.200
Floating-point processing power0.2 TFLOPS0.104 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length168 mm170 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed533 MHz600 MHz
Memory bandwidth8.528 GB/s9.6 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.0
OpenGL4.44.4
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 February 2011 17 March 2011
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 19 Watt

HD 6450 OEM has 5.6% lower power consumption.

ATI HD 5530, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 month, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6450 OEM and Radeon HD 5530. We've got no test results to judge.


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