Radeon HD 4870 vs Radeon HD 5450

Radeon HD 4870
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2008
Radeon HD 4870
Radeon HD 5450
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5450

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 4870
    705%
  • Radeon HD 5450
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4870

Around 605% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5450

131 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4870 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 4870

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4870

The Radeon HD 4870 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4870Radeon HD 5450
GPU NameRV770 (RV770 PRO)vsCedar (Cedar PRO)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size256 mm²vs59 mm²
Transistors956 millionvs292 million
Shaders800vs80
Compute Units10vs2
Core clock750 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs40vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4870Radeon HD 5450
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR2
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs400 MHz
800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4870Radeon HD 5450
TDP150 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date25 Jun 2008vs4 Feb 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4870
    12.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5450
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4870
    30.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5450
    5.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4870
    115.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5450
    6.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4870
    1200.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5450
    104.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 4870
    2400
  • Radeon HD 5450
    340

Points (higher is better)