GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB vs Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 with GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB, including specs and performance data.

HD 6450 GDDR5
2011
1 GB GDDR5, 27 Watt
0.96

GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB outperforms HD 6450 GDDR5 by a whopping 1491% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1111344
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.4613.22
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameCaicosGP106
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date18 April 2011 (13 years ago)27 June 2017 (7 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 cores1601280
Core clock speed750 MHz1063 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1480 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,400 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rateno data118.4
Floating-point processing powerno data3.789 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data80

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz2002 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.2 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 dataNo outputs
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX1112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

HD 6450 GDDR5 0.96
GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB 15.27
+1491%

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

HD 6450 GDDR5 623
GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB 13334
+2040%

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

HD 6450 GDDR5 464
GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB 10430
+2148%

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

HD 6450 GDDR5 4257
GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB 74101
+1641%

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p7
−1471%
110−120
+1471%
Full HD15
−433%
80
+433%
1200p5
−1400%
75−80
+1400%
4K1−2
−2600%
27
+2600%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
−700%
24−27
+700%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 5−6
−600%
35−40
+600%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4−5
−675%
30−35
+675%
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
−700%
24−27
+700%
Far Cry 5 1−2
−6100%
62
+6100%
Far Cry New Dawn 2−3
−2000%
40−45
+2000%
Hitman 3 5−6
−480%
27−30
+480%
Horizon Zero Dawn 12−14
−492%
75−80
+492%
Red Dead Redemption 2 1−2
−4100%
40−45
+4100%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 7−8
−614%
50−55
+614%
Watch Dogs: Legion 30−35
−147%
75−80
+147%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 5−6
−600%
35−40
+600%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4−5
−675%
30−35
+675%
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
−700%
24−27
+700%
Far Cry 5 1−2
−5300%
54
+5300%
Far Cry New Dawn 2−3
−2000%
40−45
+2000%
Hitman 3 5−6
−480%
27−30
+480%
Horizon Zero Dawn 12−14
−492%
75−80
+492%
Red Dead Redemption 2 1−2
−4100%
40−45
+4100%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 7−8
−614%
50−55
+614%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 10−11
−260%
35−40
+260%
Watch Dogs: Legion 30−35
−147%
75−80
+147%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 5−6
−600%
35−40
+600%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4−5
−675%
30−35
+675%
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
−700%
24−27
+700%
Far Cry 5 1−2
−3900%
40
+3900%
Hitman 3 5−6
−480%
27−30
+480%
Horizon Zero Dawn 12−14
−492%
75−80
+492%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 7−8
−614%
50−55
+614%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 10−11
−250%
35
+250%
Watch Dogs: Legion 30−35
−147%
75−80
+147%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 1−2
−4100%
40−45
+4100%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 1−2
−2900%
30−33
+2900%
Far Cry New Dawn 1−2
−2200%
21−24
+2200%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
−1400%
14−16
+1400%
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
−700%
8−9
+700%
Far Cry 5 1−2
−1700%
18−20
+1700%
Hitman 3 7−8
−157%
18−20
+157%
Horizon Zero Dawn 4−5
−675%
30−35
+675%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 0−1 16−18
Watch Dogs: Legion 4−5
−2250%
90−95
+2250%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
−733%
24−27
+733%

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn 0−1 10−12

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
−800%
9−10
+800%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1 7−8
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 0−1 8−9
Far Cry 5 0−1 12

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3
−600%
14−16
+600%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 24−27
+0%
24−27
+0%
Battlefield 5 50−55
+0%
50−55
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 95−100
+0%
95−100
+0%
Metro Exodus 50−55
+0%
50−55
+0%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 24−27
+0%
24−27
+0%
Battlefield 5 50−55
+0%
50−55
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 95−100
+0%
95−100
+0%
Metro Exodus 50−55
+0%
50−55
+0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 24−27
+0%
24−27
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 95−100
+0%
95−100
+0%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 12−14
+0%
12−14
+0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 16−18
+0%
16−18
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 80−85
+0%
80−85
+0%
Metro Exodus 27−30
+0%
27−30
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 27−30
+0%
27−30
+0%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 14−16
+0%
14−16
+0%
Hitman 3 10−12
+0%
10−12
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 75−80
+0%
75−80
+0%
Metro Exodus 14−16
+0%
14−16
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 24
+0%
24
+0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
+0%
2−3
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 20−22
+0%
20−22
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 14−16
+0%
14−16
+0%
Watch Dogs: Legion 6−7
+0%
6−7
+0%

This is how HD 6450 GDDR5 and GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB compete in popular games:

  • GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB is 1471% faster in 900p
  • GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB is 433% faster in 1080p
  • GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB is 1400% faster in 1200p
  • GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB is 2600% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Far Cry 5, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB is 6100% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB is ahead in 43 tests (64%)
  • there's a draw in 24 tests (36%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.96 15.27
Recency 18 April 2011 27 June 2017
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 80 Watt

HD 6450 GDDR5 has 196.3% lower power consumption.

GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB, on the other hand, has a 1490.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 150% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 is a desktop card while GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB is a notebook one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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AMD Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5
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