Thursday, April 7th 2011
AMD Unveils Radeon HD 6450 Entry-Level Graphics Card
AMD apparently unveiled its new entry-level GPU, the Radeon HD 6450 today, with some leading sites publishing mini performance reviews (check out Today's Reviews on the front page). The new GPU is intended to be an integrated graphics substitute, which gives desktops all the essential features that today's desktop environments demand, such as DirectX 11 support, Aero acceleration, various kinds of HD video hardware acceleration features, apart from the obvious benefit of discrete GPUs: not taxing the system memory as frame buffer.
The HD 6450 is based on the 40 nm Caicos GPU, it packs twice the amount of shader compute power as the previous generation, packing 160 VLIW5 stream processors, 8 TMUs, 4 ROPs, and a transistor count of 370 million. The 160 stream processors, with a core speed of 625~750 MHz (differs between AIBs), churn out compute power of up to 240 GFLOPs. It packs a 64-bit wide memory interface, that supports GDDR5 (clocks: 3.20 GHz to 3.60 GHz) and GDDR3 (1066 MHz to 1600 MHz). It has an idle board power of 9W, and max board power of 27W. Most implementations are low-profile single-slot, some even passive. The reference board features display outputs that include DVI, HDMI 1.4a, and D-Sub. Expect a $50~$60 price point. The official announcement however, is slated for April 19, or at least that's what we were told.
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The HD 6450 is based on the 40 nm Caicos GPU, it packs twice the amount of shader compute power as the previous generation, packing 160 VLIW5 stream processors, 8 TMUs, 4 ROPs, and a transistor count of 370 million. The 160 stream processors, with a core speed of 625~750 MHz (differs between AIBs), churn out compute power of up to 240 GFLOPs. It packs a 64-bit wide memory interface, that supports GDDR5 (clocks: 3.20 GHz to 3.60 GHz) and GDDR3 (1066 MHz to 1600 MHz). It has an idle board power of 9W, and max board power of 27W. Most implementations are low-profile single-slot, some even passive. The reference board features display outputs that include DVI, HDMI 1.4a, and D-Sub. Expect a $50~$60 price point. The official announcement however, is slated for April 19, or at least that's what we were told.
50 Comments on AMD Unveils Radeon HD 6450 Entry-Level Graphics Card
Nice to hear we can expect a passive version.
I wonder what this device is "equivalent to" in old-card terms. Do you think it would match the performance of an old x800 or HD3650? Looking at the TPU GPU database it is hard to assess. Shame the database doesnt include some kind of rudimentary performance metric or benchmark.
I'd say gaming performance is more like HD4650.
But who'd buy this card for gaming (even as a casual gaming) anyway?
This should have been called the HD 6150.
It's about as powerful as an HD 2600 Pro, from 4 years ago.. and costs about half as much.
Yuck.
Damn, when will AMD release the 6670 on to the retail market?:shadedshu
AT puts it roughly 75% ahead of the 5450
As long as the HD5570 is around the HD6450 is a poor choice (unless there is a specific feature it has that the HD5570 lacks).
www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-123-HT&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1699
Half height with active cooling:
www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-226-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1699
EDIT: In both cases I assume the card comes with both full height and half height brackets.
What case are you using if you don't mind me asking?
How much better?
Just to know!
I'm unsure on the name of the case as i cant find it but it looks almost exactly the same as this apart from the power switch and its black not blue
Full size cards fit but press pretty hard against the PSU fan grill as it sticks out on the PSU i have.
I'd expect these GPUs to come in some notebooks with the A4 series of Fusion APUs, which already have this exact same GPU (for Crossfiring, of course).
Crossfired Caicos... imagine a thin-and-light 11.6-13" notebook with the performance of a HD5650, that's about it.