GeForce GT 1030 GK107 vs ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1

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Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameCedarGK107
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date4 February 2010 (14 years ago)30 September 2018 (6 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 cores80384
Core clock speed650 MHz1058 MHz
Number of transistors292 million1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate5.20033.86
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPS0.8125 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs832

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 x1PCIe 3.0 x16
Length170 mm147 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s80 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
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API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.1.126
CUDA-3.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 February 2010 30 September 2018
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 65 Watt

ATI HD 5450 PCIe x1 has 242.1% lower power consumption.

GT 1030 GK107, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1 and GeForce GT 1030 GK107. We've got no test results to judge.


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