Radeon HD 5450 vs GeForce GTX 650

Radeon HD 5450
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5450
GeForce GTX 650
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 650

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5450
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 650
    847%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5450

46 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 650 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 747% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 650

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 650

The GeForce GTX 650 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5450GeForce GTX 650
GPU NameCedar (Cedar PRO)vsGK106 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders80vs384
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock650 MHzvs1058 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs8vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5450GeForce GTX 650
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5450GeForce GTX 650
TDP19 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date4 Feb 2010vs27 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450
    2.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    8.46 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450
    5.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    33.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5450
    6.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5450
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 650
    812.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5450
    340
  • GeForce GTX 650
    2880

Points (higher is better)