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Are the Radeon R5 230 and HD 6450 the same video card?



My godson received a new desktop computer at Christmas and asked me to take a look at the specs.


When he bought it, he specifically asked for a graphics card that is able to render some of the latest games. Specifically he tried to play Crysis 3 at a resolution of 1920x1080 which was everything but not a fluid gaming experience. Picture was clear but once you moved around, everything got blurry and barely playable.


I checked the computer management and found an entry like ASUS R5 230 L while on his invoice there was RADEON HD6450 2GB DDR3. Searching on the ASUS site, I found two different pages:



..indicating they're different cards. But then I found a review on Youtube with the name "Asus AMD Radeon HD6450 R5 230 2GB Graphics Card Review and Testing", basically listing both, HD6450 and R5230 as if it was one card!?


Is someone able to solve my confusion?



Answer



The Radeon R5 230 is a rebranded Radeon HD 6450. They use the same underlying GPU and differ only by memory speed.




  • The Radeon HD 6450 uses a TeraScale 2 (VLIW5) architecture "Caicos" GPU with 160 shader cores operating at 625 MHz. Memory is 512 MB to 1 GB of either DDR3 or GDDR5 at up to 900 MHz. Specifications: Wikipedia, AMD.




  • The Radeon R5 230 has the exact same GPU and differs only in memory speed. Memory is 1 GB of DDR3 at 1066 MHz on the reference card, although configurations with more memory or faster GDDR5 memory are available. Specifications: Wikipedia, AMD.




  • Neither card has sufficient performance for modern gaming. You should consider an R9 270 or better instead.




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