ATI Radeon HD 5450 vs Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	390	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	no data	Cedar
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	April 2018 (6 years ago)	4 February 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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	768	80
Core clock speed	1366 MHz	650 MHz
Boost clock speed	1442 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	no data	292 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	19 Watt
Texture fill rate	no data	5.200
Floating-point performance	no data	0.104 gflops

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).

Interface	no data	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	no data	170 mm
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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 type	GDDR5	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount	3 MB	2 GB
Memory bus width	96 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1752 MHz	800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	84 GB/s	6.4 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 Connectors	no data	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI	-	+
G-SYNC support	+	-

Supported technologies

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

Multi-Projection	+	no data
Multi Monitor	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	no data	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	no data	5.0
OpenGL	no data	4.4
OpenCL	no data	1.2
Vulkan	+	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

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Pros & cons summary

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Maximum RAM amount	3 MB	2 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	40 nm

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