Radeon HD 5450 vs GeForce GTX 970

Radeon HD 5450
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5450
GeForce GTX 970
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Sep 2014
GeForce GTX 970

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5450
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 970
    4632%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5450

129 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 970 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 4532% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 970

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970

The GeForce GTX 970 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5450GeForce GTX 970
GPU NameCedar (Cedar PRO)vsGM204 (GM204-200-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs398 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs5,200 million
Shaders80vs1664
Compute Units2vs13
Core clock650 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs4vs56
TMUs8vs104

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5450GeForce GTX 970
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5450GeForce GTX 970
TDP19 wattsvs148 watts
Release Date4 Feb 2010vs19 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450
    2.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    58.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450
    5.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    109.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5450
    6.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    224.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5450
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 970
    3494.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5450
    340
  • GeForce GTX 970
    15750

Points (higher is better)