ATI Radeon HD 5450 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5450 and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G 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 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 44% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 136 vs 68
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 140 vs 61
  • Around 40% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1457 vs 1044
  • Around 40% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1457 vs 1044
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 February 2010 vs 15 October 2008
Core clock speed 650 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 136 vs 68
PassMark - G2D Mark 140 vs 61
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1457 vs 1044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1457 vs 1044

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G

  • Around 58% lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 19 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt vs 19 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
136
68
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
140
61
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1457
1044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1457
1044
Name ATI Radeon HD 5450 NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G
PassMark - G3D Mark 136 68
PassMark - G2D Mark 140 61
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 1044
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1457 1044
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 5450 NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Cedar C79MX
Design ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch date 4 February 2010 15 October 2008
Place in performance rating 1598 1600
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 650 MHz
Core clock speed 650 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 104 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 80
Texture fill rate 5.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt 12 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 314 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 170 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz
Memory type DDR2

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity