ATI Radeon HD 5450 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5450 and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 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, 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.

ATI Radeon HD 5450

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5450

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 63% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
3.4x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 65 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB

Launch date	4 February 2010 vs 11 August 2005
Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt vs 65 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

Around 54% higher texture fill rate: 8 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 79% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 244 vs 136
Around 95% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 273 vs 140

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	244 vs 136
PassMark - G2D Mark	273 vs 140

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

136

244

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

140

273

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5450	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	136	244
PassMark - G2D Mark	140	273
Geekbench - OpenCL	2572
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.16
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	10.124
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1457
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1457
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5450	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Cedar	G70
Design	ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch date	4 February 2010	11 August 2005
Place in performance rating	1606	624
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$449
Price now		$80
Value for money (0-100)		3.16
Technical info
Boost clock speed	650 MHz
Core clock speed	650 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	104 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	80
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s	8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	302 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	170 mm	226 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity