Radeon HD 6450A: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.67% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
AMD started Radeon HD 6450A sales 7 April 2011. This is a TeraScale 2 architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of DDR3 memory clocked at 1.07 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8.528 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-A (3.0) interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 25 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 6450A: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in performance ranking | 1137 | |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
Architecture | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) | |
GPU code name | Caicos | |
Market segment | Desktop | |
Release date | 7 April 2011 (13 years ago) | |
Current price | $123 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Technical specs
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 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Core clock speed | 625 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
Number of transistors | 370 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
Power consumption (TDP) | 25 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
Texture fill rate | 5.000 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Floating-point performance | 200 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and 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) | |
Width | MXM Module |
Memory
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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory clock speed | 1066 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
Memory bandwidth | 8.528 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
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 support
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 4090) |
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 performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 6450A is GeForce 7900 GT, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 4 positions in our ranking.
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