AMD Radeon HD 6450 Review: Caicos Cometh

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Benchmark Results: Crysis 2

Crysis 2 is probably too-high of a target for this class of card, but we want to see what happens:

The Radeon HD 6450 performs close to the GeForce GT 220 DDR2 in this game, but holds onto a very slight advantage. Both cards are on the verge of playable at 720p, but only the Radeon HD 5550 and GeForce GT 430 manage an average of at least 30 frames per second (FPS) here.

The Radeon HD 5450 does quite poorly in this game. At 1680x1050, none of the cards are even close to playable.

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65 Comments Comment from the forums

mikenygmail

AMD is destroying Nvidia in every possible way, and it's only a matter of time before AMD catches up to and surpassed Intel again!
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aznguy0028

Toms, when are you going to fix your thumbs up/down rating thing?
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dragonsqrrl

mikenygmailAMD is destroying Nvidia in every possible way, and it's only a matter of time before AMD catches up to and surpassed Intel again!hmm... that's not exactly the impression I got after actually reading the review. Maybe you should try do the same. So Nvidia is getting destroyed because an ultra low-end discrete graphics card from AMD offers decent HTPC performance in comparison to the GT430? lol... And where did that thing about Intel come from?

Anyway, I would argue that gaming performance definitely isn't at the top of peoples priority list when purchasing a card in this price range. People tend to purchase $60 cards for low power, cool, and quiet media PC operation. And at least in this category the HD6450 offers solid competition for the GT430.
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cangelini

aznguy0028Toms, when are you going to fix your thumbs up/down rating thing?
Still waiting on the French dev team to let me know when it's going to unbreak that feature that previously worked fine ;-)
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rolli59

Nice to see such a big performance leap on the low range cards.
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ScrewySqrl

It would have been interesting to add your i5-2500K on its own to the comparison chart. The HD3000 has been favorably compared to the 5450 in the past, so how would it compare with the new 6450?
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machvelocy

just curious... will there be "hybrid crossfire" when this card is paired by a llano?
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Jarmo

So this doesn't require a power connector? Because that's a big thing when suggesting a replacement card for a couple of years old supermarket PC with an unknown but underpowered power supply. Seems this would fit the bill, being low-power, cheap & quiet.
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mikenygmail

dragonsqrrlhmm... that's not exactly the impression I got after actually reading the review. Maybe you should try do the same. So Nvidia is getting destroyed because an ultra low-end discrete graphics card from AMD offers decent HTPC performance in comparison to the GT430? lol... And where did that thing about Intel come from?Anyway, I would argue that gaming performance definitely isn't at the top of peoples priority list when purchasing a card in this price range. People tend to purchase $60 cards for low power, cool, and quiet media PC operation. And at least in this category the HD6450 offers solid competition for the GT430.
Maybe you should try not making baseless assumptions. Nvidia's graphics cards are overpriced and weaker than AMD's at just about every possible price point. The GTX 550 Ti is a failure, and as you pointed out yourself, even this new AMD HTPC offering offers solid competition for the GT430.

It was totally ridiculous for tomshardware to post the "Best Graphics Card for the Money" article the day before the AMD 6990 article, (to exclude AMD's new flag ship card) and then even more ridiculous to title the article "AMD Radeon HD 6990 4 GB Review: Antilles Makes (Too Much) Noise." This site obviously favors Nvidia and is paid well to do so, I'm just leveling the playing field a bit.

Also, don't use "lol" and limit your "..." usage, it makes you look bad.
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mikenygmail

Minor correction of my first post: AMD is destroying Nvidia in every possible way, and it's only a matter of time before AMD catches up to and surpasses Intel again!
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