Radeon HD 5450 vs GeForce 9400 GT

Radeon HD 5450
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5450
GeForce 9400 GT
Memory: 128Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Aug 2008
GeForce 9400 GT

Summary

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 9400 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Radeon HD 5450

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5450

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5450GeForce 9400 GT
GPU NameCedar (Cedar PRO)vsG86 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs80 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs127 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs210 million
Shaders80vs16
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock650 MHzvs459 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs8vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5450GeForce 9400 GT
Memory TypeDDR2vsDDR2
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs600 MHz
1200 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs128 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5450GeForce 9400 GT
TDP19 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date4 Feb 2010vs1 Aug 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450
    2.60 GP/s
  • GeForce 9400 GT
    1.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450
    5.20 GT/s
  • GeForce 9400 GT
    3.67 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5450
    6.40 GB/s
  • GeForce 9400 GT
    9.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5450
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9400 GT
    29.38 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better