Radeon HD 5450 vs GeForce GTX 570

Radeon HD 5450
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5450
GeForce GTX 570
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Dec 2010
GeForce GTX 570

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5450
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 570
    1723%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5450

200 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 570 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 570

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 1623% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 570

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 570

The GeForce GTX 570 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5450GeForce GTX 570
GPU NameCedar (Cedar PRO)vsGF110 (GF110-275-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs520 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs3,000 million
Shaders80vs480
Compute Units2vs15
Core clock650 MHzvs732 MHz
ROPs4vs40
TMUs8vs60

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5450GeForce GTX 570
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs320 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs950 MHz
3800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1280 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5450GeForce GTX 570
TDP19 wattsvs219 watts
Release Date4 Feb 2010vs7 Dec 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450
    2.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    22.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450
    5.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    43.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5450
    6.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    152.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5450
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 570
    1405.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5450
    340
  • GeForce GTX 570
    5860

Points (higher is better)