Radeon PRO W7700 vs HD 6450M

Place in the ranking	1187	61
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	56.20
Power efficiency	no data	18.28
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code name	Seymour	Navi 32
Market segment	Laptop	Workstation
Release date	4 January 2011 (13 years ago)	13 November 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

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 cores	160	3072
Core clock speed	600 MHz	1900 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	2600 MHz
Number of transistors	370 million	28,100 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	190 Watt
Texture fill rate	4.800	499.2
Floating-point processing power	0.192 TFLOPS	31.95 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	96
TMUs	8	192
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	48

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	no data	241 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 8-pin

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 type	DDR3	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB/s	576.0 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 Connectors

No outputs

4x DisplayPort 2.1

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.0	6.7
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.3

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:

Full HD

−7400%

600−650
+7400%

Cost per frame, $

1080p

no data

1.67

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

3−4
−7567%

230−240

+7567%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5 −7400%	300−310 +7400%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 −7567%	230−240 +7567%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 −7567%	230−240 +7567%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 −7400%	75−80 +7400%
Hitman 3	5−6 −6900%	350−400 +6900%
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12 −7173%	800−850 +7173%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7 −7400%	450−500 +7400%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−33 −7567%	2300−2350 +7567%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5 −7400%	300−310 +7400%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 −7567%	230−240 +7567%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 −7567%	230−240 +7567%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 −7400%	75−80 +7400%
Hitman 3	5−6 −6900%	350−400 +6900%
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12 −7173%	800−850 +7173%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7 −7400%	450−500 +7400%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11 −7400%	750−800 +7400%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−33 −7567%	2300−2350 +7567%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5 −7400%	300−310 +7400%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 −7567%	230−240 +7567%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 −7567%	230−240 +7567%
Hitman 3	5−6 −6900%	350−400 +6900%
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12 −7173%	800−850 +7173%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7 −7400%	450−500 +7400%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11 −7400%	750−800 +7400%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−33 −7567%	2300−2350 +7567%

1440p
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn

1−2

−7400%

75−80
+7400%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	0−1	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 −7400%	75−80 +7400%
Far Cry 5	1−2 −7400%	75−80 +7400%
Hitman 3	6−7 −7400%	450−500 +7400%
Horizon Zero Dawn	3−4 −7567%	230−240 +7567%
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3 −7400%	150−160 +7400%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

3−4
−7567%

230−240

+7567%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2 −7400%	75−80 +7400%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	0−1	0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

2−3
−7400%

150−160

+7400%

This is how HD 6450M and PRO W7700 compete in popular games:

PRO W7700 is 7400% faster in 1080p

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.65	49.84
Recency	4 January 2011	13 November 2023
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	5 nm

PRO W7700 has a 7567.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 12 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon PRO W7700 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 6450M in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6450M is a notebook card while Radeon PRO W7700 is a workstation one.

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