ATI Radeon HD 5530 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5530 and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (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).

ATI Radeon HD 5530

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5530

5.6x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 106 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt vs 106 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 783 MHz vs 650 MHz
4.8x more texture fill rate: 25.06 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
2.4x more pipelines: 192 vs 80
5.8x better floating-point performance: 601.3 gflops vs 104 gflops
3x more memory clock speed: 3608 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Core clock speed	783 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	25.06 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	192 vs 80
Floating-point performance	601.3 gflops vs 104 gflops
Memory clock speed	3608 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5530
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5530	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		12.611
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		422.002
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.255
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		25.132
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		49.9
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2166
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3313
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2166
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3313

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5530	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Cedar	GF116
Launch date	17 March 2011	15 March 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	1163
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	783 MHz
Floating-point performance	104 gflops	601.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	80	192
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s	25.06 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt	106 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	1,170 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	170 mm	210 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s	57.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	3608 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR5