Multiple display support for your HTPC (Home Theatre PC), video acceleration and 3D video playback without breaking the bank. That’s the Gigabyte Radeon HD 6450 graphics card with AMD Eyefinity technology at only R540.
This card is ideal for someone looking for something better than integrated graphics. “It is small, uses very little power, delivers good image quality, and can accelerate Blu-ray 3D over HDMI 1.4a.”
Further quoting the Tom’s Hardware review, “As an HTPC card, though, that’s where the new Radeon HD 6450 stands out.”
Gigabyte Radeon HD 6450 specifications:
| Chipset | Radeon HD 6450 |
| PCB Form | Low Profile |
| Core Clock | 625 MHz |
| Shader Clock | N/A |
| Memory Clock | 1333 MHz |
| Process Technology | 40 nm |
| Memory Size | 1 GB |
| Memory Bus | 64 bit |
| Card Bus | PCI-E 2.1 |
| Memory Type | DDR3 |
| DirectX | 11 |
| OpenGL | 4.1 |
| I/O | HDMI * 1 DVI-D * 1 D-sub * 1 |
| Digital max resolution | 2560 x 1600 |
| Analog max resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Multi-view | 2 |
| Card size | H=21 mm, L=179 mm, W=126 mm |
| Power requirement | 400 W |
HTPC with multiple screens
With a 1GB memory clock, 625MHz core clock – which can be overclocked to 675MHz – and CrossFireX support this card will handle most modern games but it is not made for hard core gaming. (For gaming, browse the graphics cards category and the gaming gear section.) The HD 6450 is aimed specifically at HTPC use, in particular for multiple screen use.
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
- Native support for up to 3 simultaneous displays
- AMD App Acceleration2
- OpenCL 1.1
- DirectCompute 11
- Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling2,5
- 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
- DisplayPort 1.2
- 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
- Unified graphics display drivers
Read more about the Radeon HD 6450 on the AMD site.
