Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 vs R5 230
Aggregated performance score
HD 6450 GDDR5 outperforms R5 230 by an impressive 70% based on our aggregated benchmark results.
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in performance ranking | 1168 | 1077 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | no data | 0.01 |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) | Terascale 2 (2009−2015) |
| GPU code name | Caicos | Caicos |
| Market segment | Desktop | Desktop |
| Design | reference | no data |
| Release date | 3 April 2014 (10 years ago) | 18 April 2011 (13 years ago) |
| Current price | $76 | $129 |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
R5 230 and HD 6450 GDDR5 have a nearly equal value for money.
Detailed specifications
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 cores | 160 | 160 |
| Core clock speed | no data | 750 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 370 million | no data |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 40 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 19 Watt | 27 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 5.000 | no data |
| Floating-point performance | 200.0 gflops | no data |
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).
| Bus support | PCIe 1.0 x4 | no data |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | no data |
| Length | 168 mm | no data |
| Width | 1-slot | no data |
| Supplementary power connectors | N/A | no 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 type | DDR3 | GDDR5 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | 1 GB |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 64 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | no data | 900 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 10.67 GB/s | no data |
| Shared memory | no data | - |
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 Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA | no data |
| Eyefinity | 1 | no data |
| HDMI | + | no data |
| DisplayPort support | - | no data |
Supported technologies
Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| AppAcceleration | - | no data |
| CrossFire | 1 | no data |
| Enduro | - | no data |
| HD3D | - | no data |
| PowerTune | - | no data |
| TrueAudio | - | no data |
| ZeroCore | - | no data |
| PowerPlay | + | no data |
| DDMA audio | - | no data |
API compatibility
List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | DirectX® 11 | 11 |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | no data |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | no data |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | no data |
| Mantle | - | no data |
Gaming performance
Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:
| 900p | 4−5
−75%
| 7
+75%
|
| Full HD | 8−9
−87.5%
| 15
+87.5%
|
| 1200p | 2−3
−150%
| 5
+150%
|
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 0.57 | 0.97 |
| Recency | 3 April 2014 | 18 April 2011 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | 1 GB |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 19 Watt | 27 Watt |
The Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R5 230 in performance tests.
Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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