Radeon HD 6450 vs Radeon HD 8740 OEM
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6450 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8740 OEM |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 8740 OEM
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6450 | | Radeon HD 8740 OEM | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Caicos (Caicos PRO) | vs | Cape Verde (Cape Verde PRO) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 67 mm² | vs | 123 mm² |
| Transistors | 370 million | vs | 1,500 million |
| Shaders | 160 | vs | 512 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 8 |
| Core clock | 625 MHz | vs | 800 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6450 | | Radeon HD 8740 OEM | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
3200 MHz effective | vs | 1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6450 | | Radeon HD 8740 OEM | |
|---|
| TDP | 18 watts | vs | 55 watts |
| Release Date | 7 Apr 2011 | vs | 5 Sep 2013 |
Radeon HD 6450
2.50 GP/s
Radeon HD 8740 OEM
12.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6450
5.00 GT/s
Radeon HD 8740 OEM
25.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6450
25.60 GB/s
Radeon HD 8740 OEM
72.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6450
200.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 8740 OEM
819.20 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better