Radeon PRO W7700 vs HD 6450 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated61
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data56.20
Power efficiencyno data18.28
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameCaicosNavi 32
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date7 February 2011 (13 years ago)13 November 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1603072
Core clock speed625 MHz1900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2600 MHz
Number of transistors370 million28,100 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt190 Watt
Texture fill rate5.000499.2
Floating-point processing power0.2 TFLOPS31.95 TFLOPS
ROPs496
TMUs8192
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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 4.0 x16
Length168 mm241 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed533 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth8.528 GB/s576.0 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 VGA4x DisplayPort 2.1
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.2
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 February 2011 13 November 2023
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 190 Watt

HD 6450 OEM has 955.6% lower power consumption.

PRO W7700, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6450 OEM and Radeon PRO W7700. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6450 OEM is a desktop card while Radeon PRO W7700 is a workstation one.


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