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Based on current gaming requirements the Radeon HD 6450 v3 Sapphire 2GB Edition is considered one of the weakest cards and wont meet modern AAA game specs. Radeon HD 6450 v3 Sapphire 2GB Edition is capable of DirectX 11 gaming requirements.

How many years will the Radeon HD 6450 v3 Sapphire 2GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 6450 v3 Sapphire 2GB Edition in your PC? You should definitely consider replacing this Radeon HD 6450 v3 Sapphire 2GB Edition graphics card, if it is still in your gaming PC.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 6450 v3 Sapphire 2GB Edition? A great upgrade graphics card would be a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, which has 3033% better performance and can run 759 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the Radeon HD 6450 v3 Sapphire 2GB Edition then a good choice would be R-500 Series Radeon RX 580 8GB as this is better than 651 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 2456% better performance as well.

FPS System Benchmark

0 FPS

High

Game

Red Dead Redemption 2

The Radeon HD 6450 v3 Sapphire 2GB Edition was released on 19 Apr 2011

Radeon HD 6450 v3 Sapphire 2GB Edition Game FPS Benchmarks On Ultra

AMD PC game performance check Radeon HD 6450 v3 Sapphire 2GB Edition

GPU

Architecture

Terascale 2 Caicos PRO

Process

40nm

TMUs

Texture Rate

5 GTexel/s

ROPs

Pixel Rate

3 GPixel/s

Shader
Processing Units

160

Driver Support

Release Price

Compatibility

Direct X

DX 11.0

Shader

5.0

Open GL

4.3

Resolution (WxH)

2560x1600

Notebook GPU

SLI/Crossfire

No the Radeon HD 6450 v3 Sapphire 2GB Edition graphics card can NOT run in parallel to other GPUs using Nvidia SLI or AMD Crossfire technology

Dedicated

Integrated

Memory

2048 MB

Memory Speed

667 MHz

Memory Bus

64 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR3

Memory Bandwidth

10.7GB/sec

L2 Cache

128KB

Display Connectors

VGA Connection

DVI Connection

HDMI Connection

DisplayPort Connection

Clock Speeds

Core Speed

625 MHz

Power

Max Power

18 Watts

PSU

400 Watt & 29 Amps

Power Connector

None

Recommended Hardware

Best CPU Match

Celeron G440 1.6GHz

Best RAM Match

2 GB

Best Resolution

1024 x 768

GPU Upgrade

Radeon HD 7750 1GB GDDR5

GD Official

GD Value

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GD RATING

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Approved

Resolution Performance
1366x768	1600x900	1920x1080	2560x1440	3840x2160
-	2.4	1.7	1.3	-

Radeon HD 6450 v3 Sapphire 2GB Edition Game Requirement Analysis

Overview
Radeon HD 6450 v3 Sapphire 2GB Edition is a special edition of AMD's Entry-Level Radeon HD 6450 v3, created by Sapphire.

Overclock: Central Unit
The Central Unit runs at the same speed.

Overclock: Memory Clock
The Operating Memory Clock runs at 667MHz and the Frame Buffer was raised to 2GB. This is a gimmick and in no way benefits the GPU.

Cooling Solution
The Cooling System remains the same.

Performance
Without Overclocking Out of The Box, Radeon HD 6450 v3 Sapphire 2GB Edition is as fast as the reference Radeon HD 6450 v3.

Source [Pip]

CPU

Core i7-4790 4-Core 3.6GHz

Graphics Card

Radeon RX 480X 4GB

2789%

RAM

12GB

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Radeon HD 6450 v3 Sapphire 2GB Edition Extras

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