ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 35% higher core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 35% higher texture fill rate: 5.4 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 214 vs 168
Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 320 vs 267

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 14 May 2007
Core clock speed	675 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	5.4 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	214 vs 168
PassMark - G2D Mark	320 vs 267

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

Around 50% higher pipelines: 120 vs 80
Around 11% better floating-point performance: 120 gflops vs 108 gflops
5.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1690 vs 299
5.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1690 vs 299

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	120 vs 80
Floating-point performance	120 gflops vs 108 gflops
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1690 vs 299
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1690 vs 299

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

214

168

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

320

267

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

299

1690

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

299

1690

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
PassMark - G3D Mark	214	168
PassMark - G2D Mark	320	267
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	299	1690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	299	1690

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale
Code name	Park	M76
Launch date	7 January 2010	14 May 2007
Place in performance rating	1017	1019
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	675 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	108 gflops	120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	80	120
Texture fill rate	5.4 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	11 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	390 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
PowerPlay 7.0