ATI Radeon HD 5450 vs Tesla M2090

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Tesla M2090 with Radeon HD 5450, including specs and performance data.

Tesla M2090
2011
6 GB GDDR5, 250 Watt
9.52
+2620%

Tesla M2090 outperforms ATI HD 5450 by a whopping 2620% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking4631288
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.631.27
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGF110Cedar
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)4 February 2010 (14 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 cores51280
Core clock speed651 MHz650 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt19 Watt
Texture fill rate41.665.200
Floating-point processing power1.332 TFLOPS0.104 TFLOPS
ROPs484
TMUs648

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 2.0 x16
Length248 mm170 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount6 GB2 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed924 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth177.4 GB/s6.4 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.0-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 9.52 0.35
Recency 25 July 2011 4 February 2010
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 19 Watt

Tesla M2090 has a 2620% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, and a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

ATI HD 5450, on the other hand, has 1215.8% lower power consumption.

The Tesla M2090 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 5450 in performance tests.

Be aware that Tesla M2090 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon HD 5450 is a desktop one.


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