Intel HD 3000 vs HD 6450

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So my old graphics card pooped out on me. I was wondering if it would even be worth it to put an hd 6450 that I have into the system. I'm not expecting crazy performance, because all I really want to play is older games and some csgo. My cpu is an i5 3570. I was searching for performance differences, but I really can't find anything. Thanks for any help you can offer.
 
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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html: Tom's Hardware ranks the HD 6450 5 tiers above Intel HD 3000 graphics (not that either one is super great).

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4263/amds-radeon-hd-6450-uvd3-meets-htpc/4: Not sure if any of the games they tested are games you planned on playing, but the HD 6450 handily beat the Intel HD 3000 graphics in all of the tests. Again, in many of those tests I wouldn't call the 6450's performance anything close to "stellar" (in half of them it struggled to get over 30FPS), but the smallest margin it had over the Intel iGPU was 15%, in some cases it actually delivered double Intel's performance.

Bottom line, it'll be an OK "emergency replacement" until you can save up...
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and to quote another source
PassMark - Direct Compute (Operations / Second) Top Performing Videocards - Updated 20th of January 2017
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/directCompute.html HD3000 better than HD6450

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http://imgur.com/a/Ki9kb
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You're looking only at these synthetic tests and benchmarks - they don't say the whole story. Gaming experience is not on the same 1:1 ratio as benchmarks. From gaming perspective, HD 6450 is better than HD3000. there is a gaming performance rating number from 1 to 10 at game-debate.com. Both cards have a rating of 2 out of 10, so they are both very low-end, but the difference is still noticeable. Now, the resolution performance has some differences:
at 1080p intel hd 3000 is 1.6/10 and hd 6450 is 2.0/10, so the HD 6450 is better for gaming than Intel HD3000.

http://www.game-debate.com/hardware/?gid=582&graphics=Intel%20HD%20Graphics%203000%20Desktop
vs
http://www.game-debate.com/hardware/?gid=471&graphics=Radeon%20HD%206450

These numbers are not randomly created, but are based on many different people's reviews and experiences.
 
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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html: Tom's Hardware ranks the HD 6450 5 tiers above Intel HD 3000 graphics (not that either one is super great).

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4263/amds-radeon-hd-6450-uvd3-meets-htpc/4: Not sure if any of the games they tested are games you planned on playing, but the HD 6450 handily beat the Intel HD 3000 graphics in all of the tests. Again, in many of those tests I wouldn't call the 6450's performance anything close to "stellar" (in half of them it struggled to get over 30FPS), but the smallest margin it had over the Intel iGPU was 15%, in some cases it actually delivered double Intel's performance.

Bottom line, it'll be an OK "emergency replacement" until you can save up for a better GPU.
 
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