Radeon HD 5450 vs GeForce GTX 660
Summary
Radeon HD 5450
100%
GeForce GTX 660
2000%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5450 |
| 121 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 660 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 1900% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660
The GeForce GTX 660 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5450 | | GeForce GTX 660 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cedar (Cedar PRO) | vs | GK106 (GK106-400-A1) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 59 mm² | vs | 221 mm² |
| Transistors | 292 million | vs | 2,540 million |
| Shaders | 80 | vs | 960 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 5 |
| Core clock | 650 MHz | vs | 980 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 24 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5450 | | GeForce GTX 660 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 192 bit |
| Memory Speed | 400 MHz
800 MHz effective | vs | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5450 | | GeForce GTX 660 | |
|---|
| TDP | 19 watts | vs | 140 watts |
| Release Date | 4 Feb 2010 | vs | 6 Sep 2012 |
Radeon HD 5450
2.60 GP/s
GeForce GTX 660
19.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5450
5.20 GT/s
GeForce GTX 660
78.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5450
6.40 GB/s
GeForce GTX 660
144.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5450
104.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 660
1882.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 5450
340
GeForce GTX 660
6800
Points (higher is better)