Sapphire Radeon HD6450 FleX Edition 1GB Video Card Review

System Overview & Testing Procedures
We are going to be installing the HD6450 FleX Edition into our test system, which is comprised of the following components.

Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K Processor
Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 Deluxe
Memory: 8GB Patriot Viper Xtreme Division 2
Power Supply: Corsair TX650 650W Power Supply
Storage: Western Digital 1TB SATA 6GB/s hard drive
Optical: ASUS Blu-ray drive
Cooling: Asetek 550LC 120MM Watercooler
Case: Thermaltake Armor A60

Let’s open GPU-Z and get some more information on this card.

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As you can see the card is running at 625MHz with the memory clock at 800MHz.  It also has 160 shaders and 1GB of memory.

For testing we will be running video benchmarks as well as gaming benchmarks.  Here is what we will be running.

Video Benchmarks
3DMark 11 (download)
3DMark Vantage (download)
Sisoftware Sandra Video Rendering (download)

Gaming Benchmarks
Counter-Strike: Source
DiRT 2
Crysis Warhead

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