Radeon HD 6450 vs Radeon R5 230

Radeon HD 6450
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6450
Radeon R5 230
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Apr 2014
Radeon R5 230

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R5 230

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6450Radeon R5 230
GPU NameCaicos (Caicos PRO)vsCaicos (Caicos PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors370 millionvs370 million
Shaders160vs160
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock625 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs8vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6450Radeon R5 230
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
vs667 MHz
1334 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6450Radeon R5 230
TDP18 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date7 Apr 2011vs3 Apr 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6450
    2.50 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6450
    5.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6450
    25.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    10.67 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6450
    200.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 230
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better