Radeon HD 5450 vs GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	108	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	77.84	no data
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2018)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	N16E-GXX SLI	Cedar
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	22 September 2015 (8 years ago)	4 February 2010 (14 years ago)
Current price	$301	$205

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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	4096	80
Core clock speed	1126 MHz	650 MHz
Boost clock speed	1228 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	10400 Million	292 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	330 Watt	19 Watt
Texture fill rate	no data	5.200
Floating-point performance	no data	104 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile 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	large	no data
Interface	no data	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	no data	170 mm
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None
SLI options	+	no data

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	GDDR5	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount	2x 8 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	3500 MHz	800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	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 data	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI	no data	+
G-SYNC support	+	no data

API support

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

DirectX	12_1	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	no data	5.0
OpenGL	no data	4.4
OpenCL	no data	1.2
Vulkan	no data	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 September 2015	4 February 2010
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	330 Watt	19 Watt

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