ATI Radeon HD 5450 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5450 and ATI Radeon HD 3870 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5450

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
• 5.6x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 106 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
• 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 140 vs 57

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3870

• Around 20% higher core clock speed: 777 MHz vs 650 MHz
• 2.4x more texture fill rate: 12.43 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
• 4x more pipelines: 320 vs 80
• 4.8x better floating-point performance: 497.3 gflops vs 104 gflops
• 2.8x more memory clock speed: 2252 MHz vs 800 MHz
• 4.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 552 vs 136
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3131 vs 1457
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3131 vs 1457

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5450
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3870

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	136 552
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	140 57
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1457 3131
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1457 3131

Compare specifications (specs)