A Closer Look
The passive heatsinks for Sapphire's HD 6450 are simple pieces of metal without any high-tech - perfectly sufficient for the heat output of this card.
The card does not require any additional PCI-Express power supply. All power is delivered via the PCI-Express slot.
The DDR3 memory chips are made by Elixir, and carry the model number N2CB2G16BP-CG. They are specified to run at 667 MHz (1333 MHz DDR3 effective).
AMD's Caicos graphics processor is made on a 40 nm process at TSMC Taiwan. It uses approximately 370 billion transistors on a die area of 67 mm².