NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 5450

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM and ATI Radeon HD 5450 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 - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

• Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
• Around 8% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 650 MHz
• Around 29% better floating-point performance: 134.4 gflops vs 104 gflops
• Around 2% higher maximum memory size: 1048 MB vs 1 GB
• 2.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
• 3.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 426 vs 136
• Around 35% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 189 vs 140
• Around 92% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 660 vs 344
• Around 74% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1158 vs 666
• Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1626 vs 1457
• Around 92% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 660 vs 344
• Around 74% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1158 vs 666
• Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1626 vs 1457

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5450

• Around 86% higher texture fill rate: 5.2 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
• Around 67% higher pipelines: 80 vs 48
• 2.6x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 50 Watt
• 2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 2572 vs 1161
• Around 18% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 10.124 vs 8.55

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5450

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	426 136
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	189 140
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	1161 2572
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	8.55 10.124
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	660 344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1158 666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1626 1457
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	660 344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1158 666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1626 1457

Compare specifications (specs)