ATI Radeon HD 5450 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5450 and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 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 20% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 540 MHz
• 2.5x more pipelines: 80 vs 32
• Around 37% better floating-point performance: 104 gflops vs 76.16 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
• 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 47 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
• Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 700 MHz
• Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 136 vs 131
• 3.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 140 vs 42
• Around 48% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 666 vs 449
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1457 vs 1397
• Around 48% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 666 vs 449
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1457 vs 1397

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

• Around 65% higher texture fill rate: 8.6 billion / sec vs 5.2 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	136 131
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	140 42
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	666 449
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1457 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	666 449
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1457 1397

Compare specifications (specs)