
HD Graphics 2500 and Radeon HD 6450 - video card comparison
HD Graphics 2500
Radeon HD 6450
Architecture
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Ivy Bridge GT1
Caicos
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
April 2012
April 2011
Bus support
-
PCIe 2.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
1150 MHz
750 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
13.8 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
22 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
392 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6
160
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.900
5.000
Memory type
System Shared
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
1 GB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
25.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
-
8.5-12.8 GB/x (DDR3) or 25.6-28.8 GB/s (GDDR5)
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
-
1
Number of Eyefinity displays
-
4
HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (11_0)
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.0
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.80
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-