ATI Radeon HD 5450 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5450 and NVIDIA GeForce 8500 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5450

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 42% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 459 MHz
  • Around 44% higher texture fill rate: 5.2 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec
  • 5x more pipelines: 80 vs 16
  • 3.5x better floating-point performance: 104 gflops vs 29.376 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
  • Around 58% lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 30 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
  • 4.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 140 vs 32
  • Around 46% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1457 vs 996
  • Around 46% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1457 vs 996
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 February 2010 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed 650 MHz vs 459 MHz
Texture fill rate 5.2 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec
Pipelines 80 vs 16
Floating-point performance 104 gflops vs 29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt vs 30 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 140 vs 32
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1457 vs 996
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1457 vs 996

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

  • Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 149 vs 136
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 149 vs 136

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
136
149
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
140
32
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1457
996
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1457
996
Name ATI Radeon HD 5450 NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 136 149
PassMark - G2D Mark 140 32
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 996
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1457 996
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 5450 NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Cedar G86
Design ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch date 4 February 2010 17 April 2007
Place in performance rating 1606 1657
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $129

Technical info

Boost clock speed 650 MHz
Core clock speed 650 MHz 459 MHz
Floating-point performance 104 gflops 29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 80 16
Texture fill rate 5.2 GTexel / s 3.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt 30 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 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 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type DDR2 GDDR3
Standard memory config per GPU 256 MB

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
SLI