AMD Officially Launched the Radeon HD 6450

Amid the center of attention of PC users who are focused on the launch of their latest graphics card, the Radeon HD 6790. AMD also unveiled other new graphics card, the Radeon HD 6450.

Seen from this naming their products, AMD is apparently targeting the low end of the previous class is filled by a Radeon HD 5450. The biggest difference between them lies in the number of stream processors were brought. If the HD 5450 only has 80 stream processors, the HD 6450 has a number of shader processors is doubled or as much as 160 shader processors.



Although the number of shader processors had doubled, AMD managed to reduce the graphics card is a TDP of only 27 W, compared to the HD 5450 which has a TDP of 40 W. For the record, AMD still manufactures the GPU on this card with a 40nm fabrication process or the same as HD 5450.

For its own core clock AMD set clock speed with a range of 625-750 MHz. As for memory, AMD frees the manufacturers to use DDR3 memory or 512MB of GDDR5 with up to 1GB. Each type of memory has a clock speed different, namely 533-800 MHz to 800-900 MHz for DDR3 and GDDR5.

Unfortunately, this card is specifically intended for the OEM market. For retail markets, AMD still has not confirmed whether this product will soon be released into the retail market.