ATI Radeon HD 5450 vs NVIDIA GeForce G102M

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5450 and NVIDIA GeForce G102M 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.

ATI Radeon HD 5450

NVIDIA GeForce G102M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5450

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
2x more memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 400 MHz
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 140 vs 59
Around 64% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1457 vs 890
Around 64% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1457 vs 890

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 February 2010 vs 8 January 2009
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	140 vs 59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1457 vs 890
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1457 vs 890

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G102M

Around 54% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 36% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 19 Watt
Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 168 vs 136

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 650 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 19 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	168 vs 136

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce G102M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

136

168

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

140

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1457

890

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1457

890

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5450	NVIDIA GeForce G102M
PassMark - G3D Mark	136	168
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	890
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1457	890
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5450	NVIDIA GeForce G102M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Cedar	MCP79MX
Design	ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch date	4 February 2010	8 January 2009
Place in performance rating	1611	1612
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	650 MHz
Core clock speed	650 MHz	1000 MHz
Floating-point performance	104 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	80
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt	14 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	210 million
CUDA cores		16
Gigaflops		48
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	VGAHDMIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	170 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bus support		PCI-E 1.0
API support
DirectX	11	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR2
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CUDA
Power management		8.0