AMD Radeon HD 7450A vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7450A and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 7450A

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7450A

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 250 MHz
5x more texture fill rate: 5 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
4x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 400 MHz
36x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 288 vs 8
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 385 vs 154

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2012 vs 6 March 2003
Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	288 vs 8
PassMark - G2D Mark	385 vs 154

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7450A
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

288

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

385

154

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7450A	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
PassMark - G3D Mark	288	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	385	154
Geekbench - OpenCL	668
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	902
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	902
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1592
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1592

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7450A	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Rankine
Code name	Caicos	NV34 A2
Launch date	5 January 2012	6 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1076	1079
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$69.99
Price now		$69.99
Value for money (0-100)		0.12
Technical info
Core clock speed	625 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	160
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.4	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR