Radeon HD 3470 vs Radeon HD 5450
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3470 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5450 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5450
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 3470 | | Radeon HD 5450 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV620 (RV620 PRO) | vs | Cedar (Cedar PRO) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 67 mm² | vs | 59 mm² |
| Transistors | 181 million | vs | 292 million |
| Shaders | 40 | vs | 80 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 800 MHz | vs | 650 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 4 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 3470 | | Radeon HD 5450 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | DDR2 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 950 MHz
1900 MHz effective | vs | 400 MHz
800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 256 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 3470 | | Radeon HD 5450 | |
|---|
| TDP | 30 watts | vs | 19 watts |
| Release Date | 23 Jan 2008 | vs | 4 Feb 2010 |
Radeon HD 3470
3.20 GP/s
Radeon HD 5450
2.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3470
3.20 GT/s
Radeon HD 5450
5.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3470
15.20 GB/s
Radeon HD 5450
6.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 3470
64.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 5450
104.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better