AMD Radeon HD 6450 Review: Caicos Cometh

[eddieroolz]

The Nvidia card seems to perform well, even though it's slightly older. Even in an HTPC, I'd rather take the performance instead.

 

[marraco]

[citation][nom]aznguy0028[/nom]Toms, when are you going to fix your thumbs up/down rating thing?[/citation]
The fruity company needs to be protected from thumbs.

 

[cyrusfox]

Whoa, where are you getting your numbers for TDP on the 5450. 40W is totally wrong for the 5450. This is what I see as TDP for the 5450 and the 5550 according to AMD(TDP max)
5450 @ 19.1W
5550 @ 39 W

 

[cleeve]

[citation][nom]cyrusfox[/nom]Whoa, where are you getting your numbers for TDP on the 5450. 40W is totally wrong for the 5450. This is what I see as TDP for the 5450 and the 5550 according to AMD(TDP max)5450 @ 19.1W5550 @ 39 W[/citation]

Not *quite* right, as the 5450's power is 'typical' and the 550's is 'maximum'. But I've updated the article with these published numbers.

 

[rootheday]

If the 6450 is primarily intended for HTPC, how about comparing it to integrated offerings such as Sandybridge? How do they compare on noise/power in HTPC use? support for blu-ray, stereo 3D, post processing, HQV, transcoding speed, etc. In other words, does the 6450 actually offer a better HTPC than what you get from a Core i3-2100?

 

[bit_user]

Sweet! I was eying the HD 5450 for a machine I mostly use as a server, but with the shader and memory improvements for only an extra 1 W idle power, I'll step up to the HD 6450!

 

[someoneelse]

good to see hqv benchmarks.

Are hqv benchmarks going to make it into the famous toms hardware charts?

 

[bit_user]

[citation][nom]someoneelse[/nom]good to see hqv benchmarks.Are hqv benchmarks going to make it into the famous toms hardware charts?[/citation]
Good point. I second this motion.

 

[Ahumado]

Caicos Cometh....read that type of tagline before?

 

[Guest]

Can any1 help me ...is AMD Radeon HD 6450 good enough for games... World of Warcraft for example ?

 

[cleeve]

[citation][nom]OP1223[/nom]Can any1 help me ...is AMD Radeon HD 6450 good enough for games... World of Warcraft for example ?[/citation]

Depends on the game. The 6450 can handle World of Warcraft because that's an easy game to handle, but if gaming is your goal you're better off with a Radeon HD 5570 at the very least--not much more expensive, but a much better gaming card.

 

[OP123]

is AMD Radeon hd 6450 good for game example World of Warcraft...coz i have some problems wit fps in game do i need to make some adjustments on it..or??

 

[OP123]

is AMD Radeon hd 6450 good for game example World of Warcraft...coz i have some problems wit fps in game do i need to make some adjustments on it..or??

 

[cleeve]

[citation][nom]OP123[/nom]is AMD Radeon hd 6450 good for game example World of Warcraft...[/citation]

Yes but 5570 is *MUCH* better.

 

[Guest]

what would the Radeon HD 7470m Graphics card do?

 

[Avro Arrow]

NCIX.com has two amazing deals on the HD 6450. The Gigabyte is $35 and the XFX is $40. Both have a mail-in rebate of $20. The idea of this card for under $20 is incredible (even if it is the GDDR3 version). I'm an XFX guy and I'll pay the extra $5 for a free copy of Orcs Must Die! Really, really, I like the double lifetime warranty and it's a fanless version whereas the Gigabyte has a fan. The fact that the XFX has 1GB while the Gigabyte has 512MB is completely immaterial because the 6450 doesn't even have enough power to use 512MB. I'd say that 256MB would have been more than enough for this card since nothing short of an HD 4870 can use more than 512MB. This will go right into my mom's HTPC that I'm building with an old Core 2 Duo E6720 1.86GHz. Should be a beauty and it really goes to show how useful older parts can be.