Radeon HD 5450 vs Radeon HD 6450

Radeon HD 5450
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5450
Radeon HD 6450
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6450

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5450
    100%
  • Radeon HD 6450
    152%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5450

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6450

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 52% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6450

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6450

The Radeon HD 6450 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5450Radeon HD 6450
GPU NameCedar (Cedar PRO)vsCaicos (Caicos PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs370 million
Shaders80vs160
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock650 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs8vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5450Radeon HD 6450
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5450Radeon HD 6450
TDP19 wattsvs18 watts
Release Date4 Feb 2010vs7 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450
    2.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450
    5.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5450
    6.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5450
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6450
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5450
    340
  • Radeon HD 6450
    520

Points (higher is better)