Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics vs HD 6450

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1232not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.94no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameCaicosBeema
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date7 April 2011 (13 years ago)28 January 2015 (9 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 cores160128
Core clock speedno data497 MHz
Boost clock speed750 MHz300 MHz
Number of transistors370 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate5.0003.976
Floating-point processing power0.2 TFLOPS0.1272 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 x16IGP
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data
Memory bandwidth8.5-12.8 GB/x (DDR3) or 25.6-28.8 GB/s (GDDR5)no data
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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
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® 1112 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.3
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 April 2011 28 January 2015
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 100 Watt

HD 6450 has 233.3% lower power consumption.

R2 Mobile Graphics, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6450 and Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6450 is a desktop card while Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics is a notebook one.


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