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D Radeon HD 6450: The Enonomic Small Sized VGA for Maximum HTPC and Light Gaming Using Performa

The latest AMD HD 600 series including 6670, HD 6570, HD 6450 with price range below $ 100 but with maximum performance. This HD 6450 is the cheapest and lowest spec among among 600 series.AMD HD 6450 comes with Chip codenamed "Caicos",designed for beginner HTPC ( Home Theater Personal Computer) user, that doesn't required high end graphic but above standard performance but with afforadble price range. Specifications: ? 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 o 160 Stream Processing Units o 8 Texture Units o 16 Z/Stencil ROP Units o 4 Color ROP Units ? GDDR5/DDR3 memory interface ? Enhanced video quality features o Advanced post-processing and scaling o Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction

o Brighter whites processing (blue stretch) o Independent video gamma control o Dynamic video range control ? Image quality enhancement technology o Up to 12x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes o Adaptive anti-aliasing o Morphological anti-aliasing (MLAA) o 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering o 128-bit floating point HDR rendering ? AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology1 o Native support for up to 3 simultaneous displays Up to 4 displays supported with DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport o Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays o Display grouping combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display ? PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface ? AMD PowerPlay power management technology3 o Dynamic power management with low power idle state ? AMD Catalyst software and HD video configuration software o Unified graphics display drivers Certified for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP o AMD Catalyst? Control Center Software application and user interface for setup, configuration, and accessing special features of AMD Radeon products ? DirectX 11 support o Shader Model 5.0 o DirectCompute 11 o Programmable hardware tessellation unit o Accelerated multi-threading o HDR texture compression o Order-independent transparency ? OpenGL 4.1 support ? AMD App Acceleration2 o OpenCL 1.1 o DirectCompute 11 o Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling2,5 ? UVD 3 dedicated video playback accelerator o MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 o VC-1 o MPEG-2 (SD & HD) o Multi-View Codec (MVC) o MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, xVid)

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o Adobe Flash ? Dual-stream 1080p playback support ? DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support ? AMD HD3D technology4 o Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support o Blu-ray 3D support o Stereoscopic 3D gaming o 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support ? Cutting-edge integrated display support o DisplayPort 1.2 - Max resolution: 25601600 per display - Multi-Stream Transport - 21.6 Gbps bandwidth - High bit-rate audio o HDMI 1.4a with Stereoscopic 3D Frame Packing Format, Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio Max resolution: 19201200 o Dual-link DVI with HDCP Max resolution: 25601600 o VGA Max resolution: 20481536 ? Integrated HD audio controller o Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI or DisplayPort with no additional cables required o Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats AMD HD 6450 Key Features: * Microsoft DirectX 11 * AMD HD3D * AMD Eyefinity * AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) Technology * AMD's PowerPlay Technology * Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA) * Bitstreaming Audio * Universal Video Decoder 3.0 * PCI Express 2.1 x16 * Dual-Link DVI * HDMI 1.4a * Display Port 1.2 Standar Display connectors:

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* 1x Dual-link DVI connector * 1x 1.2 Display Port connector * 1x D-Sub connector AMD HD 6450 also equipped with 45 mm single-slot HSF. To measure the working temperature of AMD's HD 6450, we run the application Unigine Heaven 2.1: * Full-load: 63 C (fan speed: Auto @ 52%) * Idle: 40 C (fan speed: Auto 30%) Conclusion AMD HD 6450 features an average performance in terms of high quality games or other fully loaded graphic performance.Beacause light games with DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 performs good with above 30 fps frame rate. The AMD HD3D, Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) Technology, and Universal Video Decoder (UVD) 3.0 (decoding high resolution grapchics) are the main advantages of this graphic card. Pros: ? Cheap ? Variety of connections ? Good enough to handle HD content Cons: ? Fan too noisy ? Not for gamers ? With an extra money, you could get the higher worth product 6450 htpc Incoming Computer Tutorial Search: amd radeon hd 6450 dual monitor amd radeon 6450 dual monitor hd6450 full load graphic card hd6450 maximum temperature HD6450 triple monitor hdmi cable with radeon hd 6450 home theater pc graphics card how to amd 6450 3 displays how to make triple monitor work with radeon hd 6450