GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon HD 5450

GeForce GTX 970M
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 7 Oct 2014
GeForce GTX 970M
Radeon HD 5450
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5450

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    2900%
  • Radeon HD 5450
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 2800% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5450

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 970M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970M

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 970MRadeon HD 5450
GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)vsCedar (Cedar PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size398 mm²vs59 mm²
Transistors5,200 millionvs292 million
Shaders1280vs80
Compute Units10vs2
Core clock1038 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs48vs4
TMUs80vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 970MRadeon HD 5450
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR2
Bus Width192 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs400 MHz
800 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 970MRadeon HD 5450
TDP0 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2014vs4 Feb 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    49.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5450
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    83.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5450
    5.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    120.30 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5450
    6.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    2657.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5450
    104.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    9860
  • Radeon HD 5450
    340

Points (higher is better)