ATI Radeon HD 5450 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5450 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 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 7 month(s) later
  • Around 67% higher pipelines: 80 vs 48
  • Around 21% lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 23 Watt
  • 3.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 140 vs 38
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 February 2010 vs 15 June 2009
Pipelines 80 vs 48
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt vs 23 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 140 vs 38

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

  • Around 69% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 650 MHz
  • Around 54% higher texture fill rate: 8 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
  • Around 2% better floating-point performance: 105.6 gflops vs 104 gflops
  • Around 59% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 216 vs 136
  • 2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5644 vs 2572
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1727 vs 1457
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1727 vs 1457
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1100 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate 8 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 105.6 gflops vs 104 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 216 vs 136
Geekbench - OpenCL 5644 vs 2572
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1727 vs 1457
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1727 vs 1457

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
136
216
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
140
38
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
2572
5644
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1457
1727
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1457
1727
Name ATI Radeon HD 5450 NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M
PassMark - G3D Mark 136 216
PassMark - G2D Mark 140 38
Geekbench - OpenCL 2572 5644
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 1727
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1457 1727
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 5450 NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla 2.0
Code name Cedar GT216
Design ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch date 4 February 2010 15 June 2009
Place in performance rating 1598 1599
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 650 MHz
Core clock speed 650 MHz 1100 MHz
Floating-point performance 104 gflops 105.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 80 48
Texture fill rate 5.2 GTexel / s 8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt 23 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 486 million
CUDA cores 48
Gigaflops 158

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA Dual Link DVIVGADisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Audio input for HDMI HDA
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 170 mm
Supplementary power connectors None
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 11 10.1
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s 16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3)
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz
Memory type DDR2 GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0