Radeon HD 5450 vs Radeon R9 270

Radeon HD 5450
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5450
Radeon R9 270
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Nov 2013
Radeon R9 270

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5450
    100%
  • Radeon R9 270
    2300%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5450

131 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 270 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 270

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 2200% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 270

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 270

The Radeon R9 270 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5450Radeon R9 270
GPU NameCedar (Cedar PRO)vsCuracao (Curacao PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders80vs1280
Compute Units2vs20
Core clock650 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs8vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5450Radeon R9 270
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5450Radeon R9 270
TDP19 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date4 Feb 2010vs13 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450
    2.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    28.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5450
    5.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    72.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5450
    6.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5450
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 270
    2304.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5450
    340
  • Radeon R9 270
    7820

Points (higher is better)