Radeon HD 6450 vs R7 350

Place in the ranking	603	1232
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	6.97	1.94
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	Cape Verde	Caicos
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Design	no data	reference
Release date	6 July 2016 (8 years ago)	7 April 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$55

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 cores	512	160
Core clock speed	800 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	no data	750 MHz
Number of transistors	1,500 million	370 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	30 Watt
Texture fill rate	25.60	5.000
Floating-point processing power	0.8192 TFLOPS	0.2 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	4
TMUs	32	8

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 support	no data	PCIe 2.0 x8
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm	168 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz	800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	25.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	no data	8.5-12.8 GB/x (DDR3) or 25.6-28.8 GB/s (GDDR5)

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	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity	-	+
Number of Eyefinity displays	no data	4
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.

DirectX	12 (11_1)	DirectX® 11
Shader Model	5.1	5.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	-

Gaming performance

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

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	5.59	0.51
Recency	6 July 2016	7 April 2011
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	30 Watt

R7 350 has a 996.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

HD 6450, on the other hand, has 83.3% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R7 350 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 6450 in performance tests.

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