ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1 vs RX 5500
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 281 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 14.17 | no data |
| Architecture | RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020) | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) |
| GPU code name | Navi 14 | Cedar |
| Market segment | Desktop | Desktop |
| Release date | 7 October 2019 (5 years ago) | 4 February 2010 (15 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 cores | 1408 | 80 |
| Core clock speed | no data | 650 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1845 MHz | no data |
| Number of transistors | 6,400 million | 292 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | 40 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 110 Watt | 19 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 162.4 | 5.200 |
| Floating-point processing power | 5.196 TFLOPS | 0.104 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 32 | 4 |
| TMUs | 88 | 8 |
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).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x1 |
| Length | 180 mm | 170 mm |
| Width | 2-slot | 1-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 8-pin | no data |
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 type | GDDR6 | DDR3 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | 512 MB |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 64 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 14000 MHz | 500 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 224.0 GB/s | 8 GB/s |
| Resizable BAR | + | - |
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 Connectors | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA |
| HDMI | + | + |
API and SDK compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 11.2 (11_0) |
| Shader Model | no data | 5.0 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| OpenCL | no data | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | - | N/A |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 7 October 2019 | 4 February 2010 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | 512 MB |
| Chip lithography | 7 nm | 40 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 110 Watt | 19 Watt |
RX 5500 has an age advantage of 9 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.
ATI HD 5450 PCIe x1, on the other hand, has 478.9% lower power consumption.
We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5500 and Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1. We've got no test results to judge.
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