GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs Radeon HD 5450

Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code nameCedarGM206
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date4 February 2010 (14 years ago)26 November 2015 (8 years ago)
Current price$205 $95

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 cores801024
Core clock speed650 MHz924 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1201 MHz
Number of transistors292 million2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Wattno data
Texture fill rate5.20076.86
Floating-point performance104 gflops2,460 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length170 mmno data
Width1-slot2-slot
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 typeDDR2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz7012 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s112.2 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 VGANo outputs
HDMI+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.1.126
CUDAno data5.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 February 2010 26 November 2015
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

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