ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450 vs GeForce GT 550M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking975not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.93no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGF108Park
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 January 2011 (13 years ago)7 January 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores9680
Core clock speed475 MHz650 MHz
Number of transistors585 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt11 Watt
Texture fill rate7.6005.200
Floating-point processing power0.1824 TFLOPS0.104 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs168

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz667 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s10.67 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 API11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.54.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2011 7 January 2010
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 11 Watt

GT 550M has an age advantage of 11 months.

ATI Mobility HD 5450, on the other hand, has 218.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 550M and Mobility Radeon HD 5450. We've got no test results to judge.


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