AMD Radeon HD 6450A vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6450A and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/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).

AMD Radeon HD 6450A

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 25% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 30 Watt

Launch date	7 April 2011 vs 7 January 2010
Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 500 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 30 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

4x more texture fill rate: 20 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
5x more pipelines: 800 vs 160
4x better floating-point performance: 800.0 gflops vs 200 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
3.8x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1066 MHz
2.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 763 vs 260
Around 94% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 403 vs 208

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	20 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	800 vs 160
Floating-point performance	800.0 gflops vs 200 gflops
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1066 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	763 vs 260
PassMark - G2D Mark	403 vs 208

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6450A
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

260

763

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

208

403

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6450A	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850
PassMark - G3D Mark	260	763
PassMark - G2D Mark	208	403
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		7.457
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		512.081
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1643
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1643
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3356

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6450A	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale 2
Code name	Caicos	Broadway
Launch date	7 April 2011	7 January 2010
Place in performance rating	847	848
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	625 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	200 gflops	800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	160	800
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s	20 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	8.53 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1066 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
HDMI 1.3a