AMD Radeon HD 6450 vs ATI Radeon HD 4650

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6450 and ATI Radeon HD 4650 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6450

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • Around 60% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 48 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
  • 4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 119 vs 30
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 April 2011 vs 10 September 2008
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 48 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 119 vs 30

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4650

  • 3.8x more texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 320 vs 160
  • Around 92% better floating-point performance: 384.0 gflops vs 200.0 gflops
  • Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 250 vs 198
  • Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1891 vs 1627
  • Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1891 vs 1627
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 19.2 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines 320 vs 160
Floating-point performance 384.0 gflops vs 200.0 gflops
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 250 vs 198
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1891 vs 1627
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1891 vs 1627

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6450
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4650

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
198
250
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
119
30
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1627
1891
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1627
1891
Name AMD Radeon HD 6450 ATI Radeon HD 4650
PassMark - G3D Mark 198 250
PassMark - G2D Mark 119 30
Geekbench - OpenCL 633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 1.878
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 97.327
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.231
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 4.982
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 19.314
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 497
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 810
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1627 1891
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 497
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 810
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1627 1891
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6450 ATI Radeon HD 4650

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 TeraScale
Code name Caicos RV730
Design AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date 7 April 2011 10 September 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $55
Place in performance rating 1627 1586
Price now $39.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 9.02

Technical info

Boost clock speed 750 MHz
Floating-point performance 200.0 gflops 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 160 320
Stream Processors 160
Texture fill rate 5 GTexel / s 19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt 48 Watt
Transistor count 370 million 514 million
Core clock speed 600 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 4
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 2.0 x8
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm 193 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 11 10.1
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 8.5-12.8 GB/x (DDR3) or 25.6-28.8 GB/s (GDDR5) 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire