GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 5450

GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon HD 5450
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5450

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5450

56 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1050 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1050

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon HD 5450
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsCedar (Cedar PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs59 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs292 million
Shaders640vs80
Compute Units5vs2
Core clock1354 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs32vs4
TMUs40vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon HD 5450
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR2
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs400 MHz
800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon HD 5450
TDP75 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs4 Feb 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5450
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5450
    5.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5450
    6.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5450
    104.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better