Radeon HD 6450 vs Radeon R9 370X

Radeon HD 6450
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6450
Radeon R9 370X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Aug 2015
Radeon R9 370X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6450

162 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 370X .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 370X

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 370X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 370X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6450Radeon R9 370X
GPU NameCaicos (Caicos PRO)vsTrinidad (Trinidad XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors370 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders160vs1280
Compute Units2vs24
Core clock625 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs8vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6450Radeon R9 370X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6450Radeon R9 370X
TDP18 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date7 Apr 2011vs27 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6450
    2.50 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    33.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6450
    5.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    82.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6450
    25.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6450
    200.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 370X
    2636.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better