Radeon HD 6350 will be the entry model of the Northern Islands graphics card family that AMD is expected to present by the end of October. A bunch of pictures of the budget card has surfaced, but also the first benchmark.
AMD Radeon HD 6350 is expected to replace the entry level Radeon HD 5450 and according to the benchmark at Chinese forum ChipHell the card will be around 30% faster. This is calculated from a 3Dmark Vantage Performance test resulting in about 1700 points.
This is extra interesting considering Intel’s Sandy Bridge architecture has an integrated graphics processor that performs on par with HD 5450. Radeon HD 6350 should be a direct competitor to AMD’s own APUs whose integrated DX11 graphics poertion will be significantly faster than Sandy Bridge.
If the information is correct and AMD’s Fusion GPU is as powerful as we hope it looks like AMD will be competing with itself through discrete GPUs and APUs, even in similar performance segments.
AMD Radeon HD 6350 comes with up to 1GB DDR3 memory and 64-bit memory interface. The clock frequenciy is said to be 650 MHz GPU and 800 MHz memory, but other than that the details are few. A new video processor in UVD3 and HDMI 1.4 support is listed, and below you will find several new pictures published in threads at ChipHell.
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