Radeon HD 5450 vs GeForce GT 520

Radeon HD 5450
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5450
GeForce GT 520
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Apr 2011
GeForce GT 520

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5450
    100%
  • GeForce GT 520
    167%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5450

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 520

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 67% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 520

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 520

The GeForce GT 520 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5450GeForce GT 520
GPU NameCedar (Cedar PRO)vsGF119 (GF119-300-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs79 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs292 million
Shaders80vs48
Compute Units2vs1
Core clock650 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs8vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5450GeForce GT 520
Memory TypeDDR2vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5450GeForce GT 520
TDP19 wattsvs29 watts
Release Date4 Feb 2010vs13 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450
    2.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 520
    1.62 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450
    5.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 520
    6.48 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5450
    6.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 520
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5450
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 520
    155.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5450
    340
  • GeForce GT 520
    570

Points (higher is better)