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The HD6450 is not created to target gamers who want 100fps at the highest IQ settings, therefore we are omitting many of our high resolution gaming tests today and will be focusing on 720p resolution (1280×720), which in our opinion is ideal for a low cost graphics card such as this. AMD are promoting the card as an Eyefinity capable gaming solution, so we will include some testing across multiple screens, later in the review.
It seems slightly unrealistic to be using our usual high end system for this review so we opted for a more modest configuration.
Processor: Core i5 655K
Motherboard: Intel DP55WG Motherboard
Memory: 4GB ADATA DDR3 @ 1600mhz
Power Supply: Corsair AX750W
Storage: Crucial C300 128GB SSD & 1TB Samsung HDD
Monitors: 3x Dell 2410 & LaCie 730 (IQ testing).
Software:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
3DMark Vantage
3DMark 11
Catalyst 11.4
Fraps Professional
Steam Client
FurMark
HQV 2.0 Software
Technical Monitoring and Test Equipment:
Keithley Integra unit
Thermal Diodes
Raytek Laser Temp Gun 3i LSRC/MT4 Mini Temp
Extech digital sound level meter & SkyTronic DSL 2 Digital Sound Level Meter
Games:
Dragon Age 2
Colin McRae Dirt 2
Need For Speed World
Left4Dead 2
WOW Cataclysm
All the latest BIOS updates and drivers are used during testing. We perform under real world conditions, meaning KitGuru tests all games across five closely matched runs and average out the results to get an accurate median figure.
Seems like a very decent card for the money. Not my cup of tea, but for media duties, very nice indeed.
If they clock this to 625mhz it will not relate to these scores unfortunateyl, thats a significant core clock drop.
Not a very exciting product, but the fact you can game on more than one screen, even if the IQ would be rubbish is a very cool idea. Great idea for a second system but I cant see this being used as a gaming card, more for media.
In that area it does very well indeed.
Sales in this market are much larger than the high end but there is very little money to be made here by AMD or their partners, maybe $10 a card profit.
This is a nice update, but passive would be more appealing to me than a fan.
The HD6450 seems like a nice HTPC card, if not a tad expensive.
Also, it’s nice to see a tech review site that actually makes an effort to make sure that their graphs are clear to read, so people can actually quickly make sense of the data (the whole point in a graph). Keep up the good work.
Not a very exciting product, but the fact you can game on more than one screen, even if the IQ would be rubbish is a very cool idea. Great idea for a second system but I cant see this being used as a gaming card, more for media.But the diappionting aspect is it does not have pixel shader version of 5