Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1 vs Radeon HD 7990

Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1
Radeon HD 7990
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Apr 2013
Radeon HD 7990
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7990
    5450%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1

356 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7990 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7990

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 5350% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7990

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7990

The Radeon HD 7990 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1Radeon HD 7990
GPU NameCedar (Cedar PRO)vsMalta ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs365 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders80vs2048
Compute Units2vs32
Core clock650 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs8vs128

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1Radeon HD 7990
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1Radeon HD 7990
TDP19 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date4 Feb 2010vs24 Apr 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1
    2.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    60.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1
    5.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    244.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1
    8.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    576.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7990
    7782.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1
    340
  • Radeon HD 7990
    18530

Points (higher is better)