ATI Radeon HD 5450 vs GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

GTS 240 OEM GTS 250 GTS 450 GTS 450 OEM GTS 450 Rev. 2 GTS 450 Rev. 3
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Radeon HD 6250 Radeon HD 6290 Radeon HD 7350 OEM Radeon HD 7350 PCI Radeon HD 8350 OEM Radeon R5 220 OEM Radeon HD 5450 Radeon HD 5450 PCI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1 Radeon HD 5470 Radeon HD 5530

Contents

GTS 450 Rev. 2 GTS 450 Rev. 2
ATI HD 5450 HD 5450

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking666not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.90no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGF116Cedar
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 March 2011 (13 years ago)4 February 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 cores19280
Core clock speed783 MHz650 MHz
Number of transistors1,170 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)106 Watt19 Watt
Texture fill rate25.065.200
Floating-point processing power0.6013 TFLOPS0.104 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs328

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length210 mm170 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed902 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth57.73 GB/s6.4 GB/s

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary

Recency 15 March 2011 4 February 2010
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 106 Watt 19 Watt

GTS 450 Rev. 2 has an age advantage of 1 year.

ATI HD 5450, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 457.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 and Radeon HD 5450. We've got no test results to judge.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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