Radeon HD 5450 vs GeForce GT 640M

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	803	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	0.22	no data
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	N13P-GS	Cedar
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	22 March 2012 (12 years old)	4 February 2010 (14 years old)
Current price	$310	$205

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	80
CUDA cores	384	no data
Core clock speed	Up to 625 MHz	650 MHz
Boost clock speed	645 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	1,270 million	292 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	32 Watt	19 Watt
Texture fill rate	Up to 20.0 billion/sec	5.200
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops	104 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GT 640M and Radeon HD 5450 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	medium sized	no data
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	no data	170 mm
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

Memory

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 type	DDR3\GDDR5	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	128bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 - 4000 MHz	800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	Up to 64.0 GB/s	6.4 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI	+	+
HDCP	+	no data
Maximum VGA resolution	Up to 2048x1536	no data

Technologies

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

3D Blu-Ray	+	no data
Optimus	+	no data

API support

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

DirectX	12 API	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	+	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	22 March 2012	4 February 2010
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	32 Watt	19 Watt

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