Radeon HD 5450 vs Radeon R7 240
Summary
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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 Radeon R7 240 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R7 240
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5450 | | Radeon R7 240 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cedar (Cedar PRO) | vs | Oland (Oland PRO) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 59 mm² | vs | 90 mm² |
| Transistors | 292 million | vs | 1,040 million |
| Shaders | 80 | vs | 320 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 5 |
| Core clock | 650 MHz | vs | 730 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 20 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5450 | | Radeon R7 240 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 400 MHz
800 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5450 | | Radeon R7 240 | |
|---|
| TDP | 19 watts | vs | 30 watts |
| Release Date | 4 Feb 2010 | vs | 8 Oct 2013 |
Radeon HD 5450
2.60 GP/s
Radeon R7 240
5.84 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5450
5.20 GT/s
Radeon R7 240
14.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5450
6.40 GB/s
Radeon R7 240
28.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5450
104.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R7 240
467.20 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better