Radeon HD 5830 vs GeForce GTS 450

Radeon HD 5830
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5830
GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5830
    154%
  • GeForce GTS 450
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5830

Around 54% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450

69 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5830 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5830

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5830

The Radeon HD 5830 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5830GeForce GTS 450
GPU NameCypress (Cypress LE)vsGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders1120vs192
Compute Units14vs4
Core clock800 MHzvs783 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs56vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5830GeForce GTS 450
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5830GeForce GTS 450
TDP175 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date25 Feb 2010vs13 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5830
    12.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5830
    44.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5830
    128.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5830
    1792.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5830
    3280
  • GeForce GTS 450
    2120

Points (higher is better)