Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire and Radeon HD 6450 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire
Radeon HD 6450
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Wimbledon XT
Caicos
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
April 2011
Bus support
-
PCIe 2.0 x8
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
-
750 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
-
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
-
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
160
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
-
1 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
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
-
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
-
1
Number of Eyefinity displays
-
4
HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
DirectX
11.1
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.4
Shader Model
-
5.0
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-