Radeon 890M vs ATI HD 5450 PCI

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated250
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data100.00
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)RDNA 3.5 (2024)
GPU code nameCedarStrix Point
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date4 February 2010 (14 years ago)July 2024 (recently)

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 cores801024
Core clock speed650 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2900 MHz
Number of transistors292 million34,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate5.200185.6
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPS5.939 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs864
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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).

InterfacePCIPCIe 4.0 x8
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed333 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth5.328 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMIPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.8
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 40 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 890M has a 900% more advanced lithography process, and 26.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5450 PCI and Radeon 890M. We've got no test results to judge.


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