Just like the Forsa GT 520, this card is not geared for gaming. It’s ideal for an HTPC set up and consumes very low power. The passive heat means that it operates without any fan noise. Temperatures delta is around 12 degrees C which is quite good. Pricing is also very attractive for someone looking at a non gaming card.
Design and Build: Even though the reference card has a fan on it, XFX has a fanless design. Heat sink is passive and is surrounds one side completely and half of the other side. It can easily fit inside a mini itx cabinet thanks to its form factor.
Performance: The scores indicate that this is not a card you will use for gaming. Barring Dirt 3, all other gaming benchmarks scored under 10 FPS.Even at lower resolutions there isnt much juice to play comfortably. It is best for watching HD content, where the CPU utilisation is very low which keeps the CPU free to perform other tasks in the background while you are watching your HD content.
Refer to the gallery to view benchmarks, as well as the below table.
Verdict: Just like the Forsa GT 520, this card is not geared for gaming. It’s ideal for an HTPC set up and consumes very low power. The passive heat means that it operates without any fan noise. Temperatures delta is around 12 degrees C which is quite good. Pricing is also very attractive for someone looking at a non gaming card.
Score Out of 100: 19.02
Price: Rs.2,650
| Brand Model | XFX HD 6450 |
| GPU Codename | Caicos |
| Type of memory / Memory Clock (MHz) | DDR3 / 533 |
| Core / Shader Clock (MHz) | 625 / NA |
| No. of Stream Processors | 160 |
| Memory size (MB) / Memory Interface | 1024 / 64-bit |
| Connects on card | HDMI, DVI, D-Sub |
| Accessories provided | Half Height adapter, Driver CD |
| Game Provided | N |
| Synthetic Benchmarks | |
| 3D Mark 11 (Overall) | 846 |
| 3D Mark 11 (Graphics) | 729 |
| Unigine Heaven v2.5 (1680×1050, 4xAF, Max Shader, Extreme Tesellation) Score | 66 |
| Unigine Heaven v2.5 (1680×1050, 4xAF, Max Shader, Extreme Tesellation) Frame rate | 2.6 |
| Temperature (Load) | 66 |
| Temperature (Idle) | 54 |
| Game Benchmarks | |
| FarCry 2 (1280×1024, Ultra High, No AA) Avg | 12.64 |
| FarCry 2 (1680×1050, Ultra High, No AA) Avg | 10.74 |
| FarCry 2 (1920×1080, Ultra High, No AA) Avg | 9.65 |
| FarCry 2 (1280×1024, Ultra High, 4xAA) Avg | 9.38 |
| FarCry 2 (1680×1050, Ultra High, 4xAA) Avg | 7.87 |
| FarCry 2 (1920×1080, Ultra High, 4xAA) Avg | 7.08 |
| S.T.A.L.K.E.R : Call of Pripyat (Day, 1680×1050, No AA, DX11, Ultra Detail) Avg | 9.6 |
| Resident Evil (1680×1050, 4xAA, Motion Blur on) | 12.9 |
| Resident Evil (1920×1080, 4xAA, Motion Blur on) | 11.2 |
| Crysis Warhead (1280×1024, DX10, Med) Avg | 8 |
| Crysis Warhead (1680×1050, DX10, Med) Avg | 7 |
| Dirt 3 (1280×1024, No AA, Details Medium) Avg | 20.59 |
| Dirt 3 (1680×1050, No AA, Details Medium) Avg | 16.2 |
| Dirt 3 (1920×1080, No AA, Details Medium) Avg | 14.37 |