Radeon HD 5450 vs GeForce GT 240
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5450 |
| 50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GT 240 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 240 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
HWBench recommends GeForce GT 240
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5450 | | GeForce GT 240 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cedar (Cedar PRO) | vs | GT215 (GT215-450-A2) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 59 mm² | vs | 144 mm² |
| Transistors | 292 million | vs | 727 million |
| Shaders | 80 | vs | 96 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 4 |
| Core clock | 650 MHz | vs | 550 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5450 | | GeForce GT 240 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 400 MHz
800 MHz effective | vs | 850 MHz
3400 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5450 | | GeForce GT 240 | |
|---|
| TDP | 19 watts | vs | 69 watts |
| Release Date | 4 Feb 2010 | vs | 17 Nov 2009 |
Radeon HD 5450
2.60 GP/s
GeForce GT 240
4.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5450
5.20 GT/s
GeForce GT 240
17.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5450
6.40 GB/s
GeForce GT 240
54.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5450
104.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 240
257.30 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better