ATI Radeon HD 3730 vs HD 6450

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1223not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.04no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameCaicosRV635
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date7 April 2011 (13 years ago)5 October 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$55 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores160120
Core clock speedno data722 MHz
Boost clock speed750 MHzno data
Number of transistors370 million378 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate5.0005.776
Floating-point processing power0.2 TFLOPS0.1733 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

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).

Bus supportPCIe 2.0 x8no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz396 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s12.67 GB/s
Memory bandwidth8.5-12.8 GB/x (DDR3) or 25.6-28.8 GB/s (GDDR5)no data

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity+-
Number of Eyefinity displays4no data
HDMI+-
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

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

CrossFire+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1110.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.04.1
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 April 2011 5 October 2008
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 65 Watt

HD 6450 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 37.5% more advanced lithography process, and 116.7% lower power consumption.

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