ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1

Around 30% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
3.9x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 75 Watt

Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

3.4x more texture fill rate: 17.6 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Around 20% higher pipelines: 96 vs 80
2.5x better floating-point performance: 257.28 gflops vs 104 gflops
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Texture fill rate	17.6 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	96 vs 80
Floating-point performance	257.28 gflops vs 104 gflops
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1	NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM
PassMark - G2D Mark		72
PassMark - G3D Mark		389
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2505

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1	NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Cedar	G92
Launch date	4 February 2010	2 February 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	1419
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	104 gflops	257.28 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	80	96
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s	17.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	754 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x1	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	170 mm	175 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3