AMD Radeon Vega 9 vs AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 9 and AMD Radeon HD 6450A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon Vega 9

AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 9

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 6 month(s) later
3.6x more pipelines: 576 vs 160
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 25 Watt
Around 97% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 409 vs 208
6.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1591 vs 260

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 7 April 2011
Pipelines	576 vs 160
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 25 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	409 vs 208
PassMark - G3D Mark	1591 vs 260

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 9
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6450A

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

409

208

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1591

260

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 9	AMD Radeon HD 6450A
PassMark - G2D Mark	409	208
PassMark - G3D Mark	1591	260
Geekbench - OpenCL	9554
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2591
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2591
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1856
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1856
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2482
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2482

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 9	AMD Radeon HD 6450A
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	TeraScale 2
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Caicos
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	7 April 2011
Place in performance rating	812	807
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	576	160
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	4500 million	370 million
Core clock speed		625 MHz
Floating-point performance		200 gflops
Texture fill rate		5 GTexel / s
API support
DirectX	12.1	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.4
Memory
Shared memory	Yes
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		8.53 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		1066 MHz
Memory type		DDR3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		MXM-A (3.0)