AMD Radeon HD 6450 Graphics Card

AMD Radeon™ HD 6450 GPU Feature Summary

• 625-750 MHz engine clock
• 512MB-1GB DDR3/GDDR5 memory
• 533-800 MHz DDR3 (1.066-1.6 Gbps) or 800-900 MHz GDDR5 (3.2-3.6 Gbps) memory clock
• 8.5-12.8 GB/s (DDR3) or 25.6-28.8 GB/s (GDDR5) memory bandwidth
• 200-240 GFLOPS Single Precision compute power
• TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
  • 160 Stream Processing Units
  • 8 Texture Units
  • 16 Z/Stencil ROP Units
  • 4 Color ROP Units
• GDDR5/DDR3 memory interface
• PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
• DirectX® 11 support
  • • Shader Model 5.0
    • DirectCompute 11
    • Programmable hardware tessellation unit
    • Accelerated multi-threading
    • HDR texture compression
    • Order-independent transparency
  • OpenGL 4.1 support
  • Image quality enhancement technology
    • Up to 12x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
    • Adaptive anti-aliasing
    • Morphological anti-aliasing (MLAA)
    • 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
    • 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
• AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology¹
  • Native support for up to 3 simultaneous displays
    • Up to 4 displays supported with DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport
  • Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
  • Display grouping
    • Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
• AMD App Acceleration²
  • • OpenCL 1.1
    • DirectCompute 11
    • Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling^2,5
  • UVD 3 dedicated video playback accelerator
    • MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
    • VC-1
    • MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
    • Multi-View Codec (MVC)
    • MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, xVid)
    • Adobe Flash
  • Enhanced video quality features
    • Advanced post-processing and scaling
    • Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
    • Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)
    • Independent video gamma control
    • Dynamic video range control
  • Dual-stream 1080p playback support
  • DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
• AMD HD3D technology⁴
  • Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
  • Blu-ray 3D support
  • Stereoscopic 3D gaming
  • 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support
• Cutting-edge integrated display support
  • DisplayPort 1.2
    • Max resolution: 2560×1600 per display
    • Multi-Stream Transport
    • 21.6 Gbps bandwidth
    • High bit-rate audio
  • HDMI 1.4a with Stereoscopic 3D Frame Packing Format, Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
    • Max resolution: 1920×1200
  • Dual-link DVI with HDCP
    • Max resolution: 2560×1600
  • VGA
    • Max resolution: 2048×1536
• Integrated HD audio controller
  • Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI or DisplayPort with no additional cables required
  • Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
• AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology³
  • Dynamic power management with low power idle state
• AMD Catalyst™ software and HD video configuration software
  • Unified graphics display drivers
    • Certified for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP
  • AMD Catalyst™ Control Center
    • Software application and user interface for setup, configuration, and accessing special features of AMD Radeon products

Top PC Makers Launch Desktop PCs with AMD Radeon™ HD 6450, HD 6570 and HD 6670 Discrete Graphics Cards

New desktop PCs from Dell, HP and more pack the latest graphics punch from AMD, accelerating many everyday applications, supporting new levels of realism in the latest games, and enabling the ultimate desktop workspaces with AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology-

SUNNYVALE, Calif.  —2/16/2011  AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that many of the industry’s top PC makers are choosing AMD Radeon™ discrete graphics to help customers unlock new levels of realism made possible by the company’s second generation of DirectX® 11-capable graphics, as well as enable acceleration of many everyday applications with AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology. Additionally, AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology makes it possible to combine two or more monitors into one large workspace, allowing faster access to applications and enhanced productivity.¹ New desktop PCs featuring the AMD Radeon™ HD 6450, AMD Radeon™ HD 6570 and AMD Radeon™ HD 6670 graphics cards are available today from Dell, HP, and other leading PC manufacturers.

“Today more than ever, users’ computing experiences need to be visually appealing, supporting compelling HD content and unparalleled realism in games,” said Matt Skynner, corporate vice president and general manager, GPU Division, AMD. “In response, PC makers are including AMD Radeon™ HD 6450, AMD Radeon™ HD 6570 and AMD Radeon™ HD 6670 graphics cards in their latest desktop designs. With AMD Radeon graphics, including the industry’s only second generation of DirectX 11-capable graphics and AMD Eyefinity technology, customers know they are getting the uncompromising premium experience they deserve.”

Desktop PC models with AMD Radeon™ HD 6450, HD 6570 and HD 6670 graphics cards are available today online and at major retailers worldwide. Partners are scheduled to begin shipping add-in board versions of the AMD Radeon™ HD 6450, HD 6570 and HD 6670 graphics cards as early as Q2 2011.

“Dell OptiPlex commercial desktops are designed for organizations that require maximum productivity and collaboration from their workforce,” said Mike Basore, marketing director, Client Product Group, Dell. “Graphically rich applications, HD content, multimedia training modules, and diverse types of digital content are now an everyday part of business. Using the AMD Radeon HD 6670 in the recently announced Dell OptiPlex desktop, ensures our customers have the graphics horsepower and image quality for an optimal computing experience.”

The new PCs powered by the latest AMD Radeon™ cards offer an incredibly vivid computing experience, made possible by:

• AMD EyeSpeed Visual acceleration technology, for smooth playback and superb quality 3D Blu-ray™, online streaming video, and other HD content, as well as acceleration of everyday applications such as Internet Explorer 9, Google Chrome, Adobe Flash Player 10.2 and other entertainment and productivity applications made possible through AMD APP technology.²
• AMD Eyefinity technology, for expanded desktop real estate across up to three displays that enables consumers to see more data, open more applications and view more information all at once.³
• The industry’s only second generation DirectX® 11-capable graphics, enabling consumers to play the latest games with the most realistic visuals and superior game performance.