ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition PCI vs ATI HD 5450

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1287not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.28no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code nameCedarRV100
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date4 February 2010 (14 years ago)14 March 2004 (20 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 cores80no data
Core clock speed650 MHz183 MHz
Number of transistors292 million30 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate5.2000.55
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPSno data
ROPs41
TMUs83

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 x16PCI
Length170 mmno data
Width1-slot1-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 typeDDR2DDR
Maximum RAM amount2 GB32 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz183 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s2.928 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 VGA1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)7.0
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.41.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 February 2010 14 March 2004
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 180 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 23 Watt

ATI HD 5450 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 350% more advanced lithography process, and 21.1% lower power consumption.

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