ATI Radeon HD 5450 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5450 and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5450

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more pipelines: 80 vs 32
  • Around 16% better floating-point performance: 104 gflops vs 89.6 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 2.6x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 50 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 / 512 MB
  • 4.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 140 vs 32
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 February 2010 vs 29 July 2008
Pipelines 80 vs 32
Floating-point performance 104 gflops vs 89.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt vs 50 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 256 / 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 140 vs 32

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

  • 2.2x more core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 650 MHz
  • Around 69% higher texture fill rate: 8.8 billion / sec vs 5.2 GTexel / s
  • Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 172 vs 136
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1505 vs 1457
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1505 vs 1457
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1400 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate 8.8 billion / sec vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 172 vs 136
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1505 vs 1457
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1505 vs 1457

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
136
172
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
140
32
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1457
1505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1457
1505
Name ATI Radeon HD 5450 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 136 172
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 1505
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1457 1505
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 0.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 56.838

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 5450 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Cedar G96C
Design ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch date 4 February 2010 29 July 2008
Place in performance rating 1606 1666
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $85.99
Price now $85.99
Value for money (0-100) 4.13

Technical info

Boost clock speed 650 MHz
Core clock speed 650 MHz 1400 MHz
Floating-point performance 104 gflops 89.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 80 32
Texture fill rate 5.2 GTexel / s 8.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 314 million
CUDA cores 32
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 2x DVI, 1x S-Video, Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 170 mm 6.875" (17.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors None None
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 / 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s 25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Memory type DDR2 GDDR3

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CUDA
SLI