Radeon HD 5450 vs Radeon HD 6870
Summary
Radeon HD 5450
100%
Radeon HD 6870
1335%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5450 |
| 132 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6870 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6870 |
| Around 1235% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6870
The Radeon HD 6870 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5450 | | Radeon HD 6870 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cedar (Cedar PRO) | vs | Barts (Barts XT) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 59 mm² | vs | 255 mm² |
| Transistors | 292 million | vs | 1,700 million |
| Shaders | 80 | vs | 1120 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 14 |
| Core clock | 650 MHz | vs | 900 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5450 | | Radeon HD 6870 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 400 MHz
800 MHz effective | vs | 1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5450 | | Radeon HD 6870 | |
|---|
| TDP | 19 watts | vs | 151 watts |
| Release Date | 4 Feb 2010 | vs | 21 Oct 2010 |
Radeon HD 5450
2.60 GP/s
Radeon HD 6870
28.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5450
5.20 GT/s
Radeon HD 6870
50.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5450
6.40 GB/s
Radeon HD 6870
134.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5450
104.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6870
2016.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 5450
340
Radeon HD 6870
4540
Points (higher is better)