ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450 vs Quadro FX 880M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1206not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.16no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGT216Park
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 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 cores4880
Core clock speed550 MHz650 MHz
Number of transistors486 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt11 Watt
Texture fill rate8.8005.200
Floating-point processing power0.1162 TFLOPS0.104 TFLOPS
ROPs84
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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 2.0 x16

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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed790 MHz667 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.28 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model4.15.0
OpenGL3.34.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.2-

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 11 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5450 has 218.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 880M and Mobility Radeon HD 5450. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 880M is a mobile workstation card while Mobility Radeon HD 5450 is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M
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