ATI Radeon HD 5450 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5450 and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS 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) 0 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more pipelines: 80 vs 32
  • Around 71% better floating-point performance: 104 gflops vs 60.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
  • Around 5% lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 20 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 136 vs 134
  • 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 140 vs 59
  • Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1457 vs 1053
  • Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1457 vs 1053
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 February 2010 vs 1 February 2008
Pipelines 80 vs 32
Floating-point performance 104 gflops vs 60.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt vs 20 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 800 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 136 vs 134
PassMark - G2D Mark 140 vs 59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1457 vs 1053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1457 vs 1053

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

  • Around 46% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 650 MHz
  • Around 46% higher texture fill rate: 7.6 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Core clock speed 950 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate 7.6 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
136
134
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
140
59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1457
1053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1457
1053
Name ATI Radeon HD 5450 NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 136 134
PassMark - G2D Mark 140 59
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 1053
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1457 1053
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 5450 NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Cedar G84
Design ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch date 4 February 2010 1 February 2008
Place in performance rating 1606 1608
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 650 MHz
Core clock speed 650 MHz 950 MHz
Floating-point performance 104 gflops 60.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 80 32
Texture fill rate 5.2 GTexel / s 7.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt 20 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 289 million
CUDA cores 32

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 1.0 x16
Length 170 mm
Supplementary power connectors None
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 700 MHz
Memory type DDR2 GDDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity