Radeon HD 6450A: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon HD 6450A provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.65% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090.
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Summary
AMD started Radeon HD 6450A sales 7 April 2011. This is a TeraScale 2 architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of DDR3 memory clocked at 0.53 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8.528 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-A (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 25 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 6450A: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1223 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 1.84 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) | |
| GPU code name | Caicos | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 7 April 2011 (14 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon HD 6450A's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 6450A's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 160 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 625 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 370 million | of 153,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI300) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 3 nm (GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 25 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 5.000 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.2 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 6450A and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | MXM-A (3.0) |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6450A: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 533 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 8.528 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6450A. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon HD 6450A, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 6450A. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 6450A is GeForce Go 7950 GTX, which is faster by 2% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
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