AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon HD 6450

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

AMD Radeon HD 6450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (18W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +885%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6450

0.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

Radeon HD 6450

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

2

-

896

Shading Units

160

56

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

115W

TDP

18W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Caicos

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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