Radeon HD 6450 OEM vs HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameSandy BridgeCaicos
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 May 2011 (13 years ago)7 February 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6160
Core clock speed350 MHz625 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data370 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data18 Watt
Texture fill rateno data5.000
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data512 MB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data533 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data8.528 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.111.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.4
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2011 7 February 2011
Chip lithography 32 nm 40 nm

HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) has an age advantage of 2 months, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) and Radeon HD 6450 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) is a notebook card while Radeon HD 6450 OEM is a desktop one.


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Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
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