Radeon RX 560 896SP vs HD 6450 GDDR5

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1111not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.46no data
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameCaicosPolaris 21
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 April 2011 (13 years ago)4 July 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 cores160896
Core clock speed750 MHz1090 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1175 MHz
Number of transistorsno data3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rateno data65.80
Floating-point processing powerno data2.106 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data56

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 3.0 x8
Lengthno data170 mm
Widthno data2-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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data112.0 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 DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX1112 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2011 4 July 2017
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 45 Watt

HD 6450 GDDR5 has 66.7% lower power consumption.

RX 560 896SP, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 and Radeon RX 560 896SP. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5
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