ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 540 MHz
2.5x more pipelines: 80 vs 32
Around 37% better floating-point performance: 104 gflops vs 76.16 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
2.5x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 47 Watt

Launch date	4 February 2010 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 540 MHz
Pipelines	80 vs 32
Floating-point performance	104 gflops vs 76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt vs 47 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Around 65% higher texture fill rate: 8.6 billion / sec vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Around 5% higher memory clock speed: 700 MHz vs 666 MHz

Texture fill rate	8.6 billion / sec vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	700 MHz vs 666 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark		131
PassMark - G2D Mark		42
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		449
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		449
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1397

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Cedar	G84
Launch date	4 February 2010	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	not rated	1621
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$159
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	540 MHz
Floating-point performance	104 gflops	76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	80	32
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s	8.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt	47 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	289 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	145 mm	170 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	5.33 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	666 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3
Standard memory config per GPU		256 MB
Technologies
SLI