ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1

NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1

Around 18% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 550 MHz
3.6x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 69 Watt

Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 550 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt vs 69 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 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
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Around 70% higher memory clock speed: 1700 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
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1	NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM
PassMark - G2D Mark		242
PassMark - G3D Mark		738
Geekbench - OpenCL		11231
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3974
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3974

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1	NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Cedar	GT215
Launch date	4 February 2010	2 February 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	953
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	104 gflops	257.28 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	80	96
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s	17.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt	69 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	727 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	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	27.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	1700 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3