AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon HD 6450

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6450 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon HD 6450

Price

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$ 139.19

$ 27.00

$ 112.19 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2281 points

infinity significantly better overall score

0 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

47 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49182 points

7681% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

632 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

7075% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

638 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

78% significantly higher boost clock speed

750 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

700% significantly more memory

1 GiB

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

3100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

30 W

516% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

192nd of 586

582nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Radeon HD 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon RX 580 vs Radeon HD 6450 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 580 beats the Radeon HD 6450 in gaming performance.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 580 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon HD 6450 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 at 185 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 580 over the Radeon HD 6450.