AMD Radeon HD 6450 Review: Tiny VGA for HTPC and Light Gaming

AMD HD 6670, HD 6570, HD 6450 and is now a permanent resident of add-on graphics card AMD HD 6000 series in the class price below $ 100. We have to show you the performance of AMD's HD 6670 and HD 6570 but not with the HD 6450. This time, we will demonstrate the performance of AMD's HD 6450 which is an add-on graphics card AMD HD 6000 series with the lowest specification.

Equipped with a chip codenamed "Caicos", AMD HD 6450 is targeted for users who want to build a HTPC or users who want a better graphics card than the onboard graphics card in their system with the cheapest price. AMD HD 6450 itself is offered at price levels ranging from $ 55. It is not possible an affordable system can be created with this graphics card.


Based on the experience of previous generation graphics card, usually the lowest variant of a graphics card series is less reliable for heavy gaming. If you see this, apparently trying advantages offered by AMD HD 6450 over the work that helps the task processor, or switch entirely to the task processor graphics card and run some games that are quite mild for the rendering graphics card like this. Some types of work such as accelerating the high-resolution video content, video transcoding, and others. In this way, the processor can perform other more important tasks.

Spesification

 
Compared closest variants, gulf specs AMD HD 6570 and HD 6450 quite wide. AMD HD 6450 Stream Processor equipped with 160 pieces, 8 pieces of Texture Units, and 4 pieces ROP Units. AMD HD 6450 that we got from the AMD at Computex 2011, which then turned out comes clocked the highest of which can be offered by AMD's HD 6450 is 750/3600 MHz although unfortunately only 512 MB ​​of memory size, not 1 GB.

AMD HD 6450 Feature

  • Microsoft DirectX 11
  • AMD HD3D
  • AMD Eyefinity
  • AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) Technology
  • AMD PowerPlay Technology
  • Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA)
  • Bitstreaming Audio
  • Universal Video Decoder 3.0
  • PCI Express 2.1 x16
  • Dual-Link DVI
  • HDMI 1.4a
  • Display Port 1.2