Radeon HD 5450 PCI vs GeForce GTX 460 SE

Radeon HD 5450 PCI
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5450 PCI
GeForce GTX 460 SE
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Nov 2010
GeForce GTX 460 SE
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5450 PCI
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    905%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5450 PCI

131 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 460 SE .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 460 SE

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 805% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 460 SE

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 460 SE

The GeForce GTX 460 SE is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5450 PCIGeForce GTX 460 SE
GPU NameCedar (Cedar PRO)vsGF104 (GF104-225-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders80vs288
Compute Units2vs6
Core clock650 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs8vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5450 PCIGeForce GTX 460 SE
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed333 MHz
666 MHz effective
vs850 MHz
3400 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5450 PCIGeForce GTX 460 SE
TDP19 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date4 Feb 2010vs15 Nov 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450 PCI
    2.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    7.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450 PCI
    5.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    31.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5450 PCI
    5.33 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    109.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5450 PCI
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    748.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5450 PCI
    340
  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    3080

Points (higher is better)