ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 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), Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
21.5x lower typical power consumption: 11 Watt vs 236 Watt
Around 45% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1107 MHz
5.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 320 vs 57

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 16 June 2008
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	11 Watt vs 236 Watt
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1107 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	320 vs 57

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

Around 92% higher core clock speed: 1296 MHz vs 675 MHz
8.9x more texture fill rate: 48.2 billion / sec vs 5.4 GTexel / s
3x more pipelines: 240 vs 80
5.8x better floating-point performance: 622.1 gflops vs 108 gflops
6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1278 vs 214
11.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3325 vs 299
11.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3325 vs 299

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1296 MHz vs 675 MHz
Texture fill rate	48.2 billion / sec vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	240 vs 80
Floating-point performance	622.1 gflops vs 108 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1278 vs 214
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3325 vs 299
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3325 vs 299

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

214

1278

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

320

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

299

3325

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

299

3325

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
PassMark - G3D Mark	214	1278
PassMark - G2D Mark	320	57
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	299	3325
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	299	3325
Geekbench - OpenCL		21396
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2697
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2697

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Park	GT200
Launch date	7 January 2010	16 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1036	1038
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$649
Price now		$522.78
Value for money (0-100)		2.98
Technical info
Core clock speed	675 MHz	1296 MHz
Floating-point performance	108 gflops	622.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	80	240
Texture fill rate	5.4 GTexel / s	48.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	11 Watt	236 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	1,400 million
CUDA cores		240
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVDual Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Height		4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Length		10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
SLI options		2-way3-way
Supplementary power connectors		6-pin & 8-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	141.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1107 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI