Thursday, December 15th 2011
HIS Develops Radeon HD 6450 with 2 GB of Memory and a PCIe x1 Interface
Claiming to help owners of 'legacy systems', Hong Kong-based add-in board maker Hightech Information System (HIS) has constructed a Radeon HD 6450 card which is equipped with 2 GB of DDR3 memory and makes use of a PCIe x1 interface.
Suited for compact systems, HIS' new card features a low-profile design, a blue PCB, a passive cooler, 160 Stream Processors, a 64-bit memory interface, GPU and memory clocks of 625 MHz and 1000 MHz, respectively, and three display outputs - D-Sub, dual-link DVI and DisplayPort. No word on pricing.
Suited for compact systems, HIS' new card features a low-profile design, a blue PCB, a passive cooler, 160 Stream Processors, a 64-bit memory interface, GPU and memory clocks of 625 MHz and 1000 MHz, respectively, and three display outputs - D-Sub, dual-link DVI and DisplayPort. No word on pricing.
26 Comments on HIS Develops Radeon HD 6450 with 2 GB of Memory and a PCIe x1 Interface
why ruin a graphics card's price by putting such a stupid thing on it :shadedshu
EDIT: this is almost as dumb as putting 4GB of VRAM on a GDDR3 GTX550TI :D
to me legacy = ISA or VL BUS or PCi or AGP ( 2x 4x 8x)
Think i speak for most people here in saying PCIx is not legacy (even PCIx1)
2GB, well I could understand that if it was driving eyefinity with 6 or 8 independent outs. But again, legacy means Win XP and 32bit. Now what legacy machine is going to want to mirror 2GB GPU address space in their small ram footprint??!!
Looking at the "box" there is no mention of legacy, but a list of some servers and SFFs that dont have PCIe16.
Seems like a good product for this niche... but a better product would have been a $10 cheaper 1GB card.
99% of the time you're not using the GPU at all for video decoding, you can PM me for info if you want. i did setup a few guides on the forums, i think the DXVA one is still in my sig.
I got an old 8800gtx in there now...but i cant for the life of me get that to run dxva, unless its the files im trying to play that cant support it (didn't thoroughly test as i just shoved a e8400 in there and that kind of does the job lol).
but the 6450 is autoCAD supported.
Yes, the 2GB of RAM is a cheap move to catch un-informed buyers. However, it isn't really adding any cost to the card with the rock bottom prices of DDR3(especially 1066MHz DDR3). They could have halved it and only went with 1GB, but how much would that save really?
Coming soon the AMD 7450 8GB and Nvidia 620 8GB?
In fact we hear little use of PCI-E x1 devices by the public besides sound cards.
As mentioned AGP to me is considered legacy for graphics.
If this was to sell cheap as chips, I can see this being considered as a back up card if the primary card fails.